Löwenstein Castle (Palatinate)
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 Löwenstein Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Lewenstein | |
| Creation time : | around 1180 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | Ruin, Palasrest | |
| Place: | Niedermoschel | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 44 '13.5 " N , 7 ° 47' 26.5" E | |
| Height: | 210 m above sea level NN | |
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The Castle Lowenstein , also Lewenstein called, is the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle on 210 m above sea level. NN near Niedermoschel in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
investment
From the former castle, only the remains of the palace are preserved today. The area of the castle ruins is privately owned and is used as pasture.
history
The castle was probably built by the Lewenstein family. The first documented member of the ministerial family is Emmerich von Lewenstein in 1227. According to legend, the Lewensteiners mastered the art of metal sensing , which is why the castle is associated with the silver mine in Niedermoschel, for which the castle could have served as a protection.
On January 20, 1275 Castle by Emmerich and tungsten is the Lowenstein Count Heinrich von Veldenz a Jahresgült of eight pounds to feudal applied. The Löwensteiners also became so-called single men of the County of Veldenz and committed themselves to the defense of their castles and houses. From this year on, the castle complex shares the history of the Landesburg . The Veldenz Counts gradually lend the Löwensteiners further fiefdoms and thus let them work across the entire North Palatinate region .
In 1279 inhabited by Emercho III. for the first time a Löwensteiner visited Randegg Castle . Emercho married Lutrade, the daughter of Wilhelm von Randegg, in 1279 and thus founded the line of those from Löwenstein zu Randegg. From this gender comes u. a. Johannes Brenner von Löwenstein († 1537) Vicar General of the Principality of Speyer . The prince-bishop's bailiff or bailiff Wilhelm von Löwenstein († 1579) also comes from this family association. His gravestone with coat of arms and portrait is preserved in the parish church of St. Ulrich in Deidesheim .
In 1525 the facility was damaged during the German Peasant War . The following War of the Palatinate Succession then led to final destruction by French troops in 1689.
Remarks
- ↑ Sign on the castle
- ↑ Manfred Czerwinski: Castles - proud witnesses of a great time . Verlag Superior, Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-936216-07-X
literature
- Alexander Thon (Ed.): How swallow nests glued to the rock. Castles in the Northern Palatinate . 1st edition Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2005, pp. 90–93, ISBN 3-7954-1674-4 .
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon, Volume 3: IN . Published by the Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2005, ISBN 3-927754-54-4 , pp. 381–393.
Web links
- Löwenstein castle ruins at burgenwelt.de