Limbach Castle

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Limbach Castle
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Burgstall, ditch
Place: Limbach
Geographical location 49 ° 27 '34.3 "  N , 9 ° 12' 38.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '34.3 "  N , 9 ° 12' 38.9"  E
Height: 385  m above sea level NN
Limbach Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Limbach Castle

The castle Limbach is an Outbound Hohenstaufen imperial castle on the site of today's castle square in Limbach in Neckar-Odenwald ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ), built in 1200 and demolished 1,771th

location

The Burgstall in Limbach, today called Schlossplatz , is a tree-lined area surrounded by ditches on the right opposite the confluence of the Baumgarten settlement road with the Muckentaler Strasse leading south out of the village.

history

The place Limbach was created in the course of the Frankish colonization on the old long distance route from Wimpfen to Amorbach . At the time of the Staufer a castle was built below the old village and the village was moved from the original settlement above the Lautzenklinge to the Niederungsburg. Limbach was first mentioned in a document with a Vogt Konrad von Limbach, who owned Gundelsheim in 1283 . In 1314 King Ludwig the Bavarian pledged the taxes of the imperial people of Limbach to the donor Eberhard von Erbach, who had also had the villages of Mudau and Limbach as a Würzburg fief since 1310 , but sold his property to the Archbishop of Mainz after a few years. The castle was first mentioned in 1340 when Archbishop Heinrich von Virneburg appointed the knight Ludwig Mönch von Rosenberg as Burgmann in Limbach. The brothers Heinrich and Hermann Pilgrim or Bilgerin followed in 1344. The castle was called Heinrichsburg , which suggests a new building or renovation by Heinrich von Virneburg. After the Pilgrim, who called themselves von Limbach , the brothers Dieter and Kuntz Rüdt von Bödigheim followed in 1411. Archbishop Berthold von Henneberg pledged the castle with the towns of Limbach and Scheringen to Martin von Adelsheim in 1482. In 1488 Wilhelm the Short from Bödigheim released the pledge.

In the Peasants' War in 1525, the castle was according to a statement in the trial of Götz von Berlichingen burned out, but the damage does not seem to be very been great, because the castle was inhabited again in the following year.

The circle of royal people endowed with old special rights met annually on St. Stephen's Day in the castle and in 1545 comprised 85 people from 31 villages. With the rise of absolutism, the special rights of the royal people were lost until after the Thirty Years' War . After this war, the palace was the administrative seat of a Mainz governor. In addition to the three-storey main building, the castle included farm buildings such as a horse stable and a wash house, and outside the wall there was also a barn and pigsties. In the course of the 18th century, for cost reasons, the Limbach administration was transferred to a bourgeois in the office of the Limbach Oberschultheissen, which made the castle unnecessary as an official residence and was demolished in 1771 by order of the Archbishop of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph .

literature

  • Bernd Fischer: Limbach Castle and its royal people . In: Mosbacher Hefte 18, Mosbach 2008, pp. 26–33.