Koppenstein Castle
| Koppenstein Castle | ||
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 Koppenstein Castle, keep |
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| Creation time : | after 1325 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Keep, foundation walls | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Henau | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 52 '36.5 " N , 7 ° 29' 21.4" E | |
| Height: | 554.9 m above sea level NHN | |
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Koppenstein Castle is a ruined castle near Henau in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The ruins of the hilltop castle is situated on 554.9 m above sea level. NHN on the Koppensteiner Höhe above the valley of the Kellenbach in the western Soonwald in the Hunsrück . It is located about two kilometers as the crow flies south of the municipality of Gemünden and twelve kilometers south of the district town of Simmern .
History and layout
The mountain Koppenstein is mentioned as early as the 12th century. There are indications of an even older settlement (ditches and stone walls). The ruins visible today were built by the Counts of Sponheim after 1325. In 1330 the settlement at the foot of the castle was given city rights. By the Thirty Years' War at the latest , the castle and the town were given up and fell into disrepair.
Today the pentagonal and 20 m high keep is best preserved. It can be climbed and offers a wide view.
Of the other buildings of the castle and the settlement only sparse remains or foundation walls exist. The moat is up to 10 meters deep and in places up to 20 meters wide.
At Koppenstein Castle, the booty from the robbery of Otzweiler and another robbery by Schinderhannes was divided up in early 1800 .
The von Koppenstein family
The von Koppenstein family named themselves after the castle . It came from an illegitimate son of Count Johann II von Sponheim-Kreuznach († 1340) (see LHAK Best. 700,219 No. 1) and was endowed with important castle and other fiefs by the County of Sponheim. In the blue and gold slaughtered coat of arms, she led a (standing) raven in red at the top right. The last male bearer of the Koppensteiner name, Jakob Adolf von Koppenstein († 1768), appointed his closest relative, Damian Freiherr Schenk von Schmidtburg , as his heir, to whom most of the Koppenstein property fell. Jakob Adolf von Koppenstein returned the family's Sponheim fiefs to the County of Sponheim in 1759. They were lent to his cousin Franz Karl von Hacke (son of Baron Ludwig Anton von Hacke ).
Today the ruins and castle district, including Gemünden Castle, belong to the descendants of the Schmidtburger, the barons of Salis .
Koppenstein Castle, view to Womrather Höhe
Koppenstein Castle, distance table
View from Koppenstein Castle towards Gemünden
Coat of arms of the Koppensteiner, on the Auwach epitaph , Speyer Cathedral , south side
literature
- Inventory of the family archive of Koppenstein and von Hacke (1373–1803), arr. by Gabriele Schulz, (publications from archives in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland - small series - 47) Koblenz 1990 = finding aid of the holdings 700,219 in the state main archive Koblenz
- Peter Meyer: Koppenstein , Simmern 1963
- Hans Rademacher: The early history of the lords of Koppenstein from their beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages , Mainz 1981
- Alexander Thon , Stefan Ulrich u. Achim Wendt, "... where a mighty tower defiantly looks down". Castles in the Hunsrück and on the Nahe, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2493-0 , pp. 96-101.
- Martin Wenz: Koppenstein - a hilltop castle with city rights In: Olaf Wagener (Hrsg.): Castles in the Hunsrück - A castle landscape in the flow of time . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-744-9 , pp. 135-148.
Web links
- Entry on Koppenstein Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Information about the castle on hunsrueck-nahereisen.de
- Lookout towers in the Hunsrück on hunsrueck-zeitung.com
- 360-degree view from the keep (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net
- Fritz Schellack: Koppenstein in the Hunsrück . Edited for regionalgeschichte.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes ) Scale 1: 3,000