Liebenscheid Castle
| Liebenscheid Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Liebenscheid Castle | |
| Creation time : | before 1341 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | Vault remains of the cellar | |
| Standing position : | Graefish | |
| Place: | Love divorce | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 41 '45.7 " N , 8 ° 5' 48.1" E | |
| Height: | 537 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Liebenscheid even lock Liebenscheid called, was a castle in the municipality Liebenscheid in Rhineland-Palatinate, Westerwaldkreis .
Location and facilities
The castle was in the village of Liebenscheid near the old schoolhouse. There are only small remains of a cellar vault.
In 1577 the castle had 34 rooms, a forge and a cattle house .
history
Liebenscheid Castle was a Nassau castle . When the Nassau-Beilstein line was separated from the Nassau-Dillenburg line , the castle was awarded to the Nassau-Beilstein line on June 18, 1341. This was also the first mention of the castle in 1341.
The Nassau-Beilstein House expanded the castle as a secondary residence to Beilstein Castle . The Liebenscheid castle formed a fortification in the west of their county against the Lords of Westerburg . With these, the Counts of Nassau-Beilstein were repeatedly in conflict over the rule of the Westerwald . In 1360 , Emperor Charles IV granted the settlement near the castle town rights based on the Wetzlar model. The Nassau counts fortified the place there, but were never able to develop it into a real city.
The castle served several times as a pledge for the indebted counts. As early as 1344, Heinrich von Nassau-Beilstein pledged the castle to the Lords of Haiger. In 1353 he gave the castle to the Archbishop of Trier Baldwin of Luxembourg as a fief . In return, Heinrich received 1,200 gold florins. In 1469 the castle was in the possession of Dietrich von Ockershausen.
Younger brothers of the Counts of Nassau-Beilstein resided at the castle. First from around 1380 Reinhard († 1414/18), the brother of Heinrich II. , And after him his son of the same name Heinrich III. († 1477), and from 1537 to 1556 then Bernhard († 1556), the brother of Johann II .
After the end of the County of Nassau-Beilstein in 1561, the castle fell back to the Counts of Nassau-Dillenburg. The castle was the seat of a Nassau winery and served as a prison. Jan Rubens spent part of his imprisonment between 1571 and 1573 in the castle. Another prisoner was Gerhard Eobanus Geldenhauer (1582). Count Johann VI. von Nassau-Dillenburg had the fortification of the castle expanded several times between 1587 and 1594 and added entrenchments. The castle was to form a bulwark against Spanish troops in the Eighty Years' War .
The castle was still inhabited until 1617. In 1620 the castle fell to the County of Nassau-Diez . During the Thirty Years War the castle fell into disrepair. On the orders of Albertine Agnes von Oranien-Nassau , the ruin was torn down in 1672/73 and the building material was used to build Oranienstein Castle .
literature
- Hermann-Josef Hucke (Ed.): Great Westerwaldführer . 3. Edition. Verlag Westerwald-Verein eV, Montabaur 1991, ISBN 3-921548-04-7 , p. 101-102 .
- Jens Friedhoff : The furnishing of Nassau castles and palaces as reflected in early modern inventories . In: Nassau Annals . tape 113 . Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Archeology and Historical Research , 2002, ISSN 0077-2887 , p. 135-137 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography . Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 223 .
