Mühlenbach Castle (Koblenz)

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Mühlenbach Castle
Main tower of the former castle complex

Main tower of the former castle complex

Creation time : around 1300
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: Only the main tower preserved
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Koblenz
Geographical location 50 ° 21 '11.6 "  N , 7 ° 40' 15.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '11.6 "  N , 7 ° 40' 15.7"  E
Mühlenbach Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Mühlenbach Castle

The Burgmühle Bach was a lowland castle in Koblenz . Only the main tower remains of the castle , which was built around 1300 in today's Arenberg district and destroyed in the 17th century .

history

Mühlenbach Castle was built around 1300 by Hermann II von Helfenstein in the source area of ​​the Mühlenbach as a moated castle ; it was a fiefdom of Herford Abbey . In addition to their ancestral castle ( Helfenstein Castle ), which was located below the Ehrenbreitstein Castle in Electorate of Trier , the von Helfenstein family also owned the Sporkenburg near Eitelborn . It gave the imperial rule , to which the places Arenberg and Immendorf as well as some mills on the Mühlenbach belonged, its name.

In the 14th century, Mühlenbach Castle became a Ganerbeburg , which belonged to the von Helfenstein and von Brandenburg families. The Brandenburgers sold their share in 1445 for 2000 guilders to Johann von Helfenstein. After the von Helfenstein family died out in 1579, the castle came to Otto von Rolshausen, who was married to Wilhelma, a daughter of the last Helfensteiner. After long disputes over inheritance, the Mühlenbach estate was divided in 1626 between Stephan von Wrede , Otto von Rolshausen's son-in-law, and Otto Niklas vom Stein-Kallenfels, the husband of Christine Katharinas, the other daughter of the last Helfensteiner. The Stein-Kallenfels share came to Johann Wilhelm von Hunolstein through inheritance and marriage in 1628 , from whom it passed on to the von Heddesdorf family. This half was also bought by the von Wrede family in 1715, who now owned the entire estate until they sold it at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the Thirty Years' War , the castle mill stream was destroyed but later rebuilt. The castle complex was finally destroyed in 1692 by the French in the Palatinate War of Succession . Only the main tower remained, which was used as a granary in the early 20th century.

construction

The preserved five-story main tower is 23.5 m high and consists of Grauwackebruchstein . It was built on a square floor plan and has a tent roof . Some slotted windows, the staircase on the south side to a door on the first floor with an ogival panel and part of the medieval plastering have been preserved. Remnants of chimneys and window niches suggest that it must have been a residential tower . Nothing remains of the rest of the castle above ground. The main tower was probably in the middle of a rectangular ring wall , which was provided with four small round towers at the corners . The complex was surrounded by a ditch that was probably filled with water, as several streams met in the basin.

Monument protection

The preserved tower of Mühlenbach Castle is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Arenberg, southeast of the village by the Mühlenbacher Hof .

The preserved tower of Mühlenbach Castle has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .

literature

  • Udo Liessem: Mühlenbach . In: Koblenz. Natural, soil and cultural monuments . Koblenz 1980, p. 125-128 .
  • Hans-Erich Kubach, Fritz Michel and Hermann Schnitzler (arrangement): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Landkreis Koblenz (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 163 ). Düsseldorf 1944, p. 59 f .
  • Peter Brommer, Werner Krümmel and Kristine Werner: Snapshots - castles on the Middle Rhine in old drawings and new photographs , Koblenz 2000, p. 120 f.
  • Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Mühlenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz. Mainz 2020, p. 15 (PDF; 6.5 MB).