Medelsheim Castle
| Medelsheim Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1300, first mentioned in 1334 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Gersheim - Medelsheim | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 8 '41.9 " N , 7 ° 16' 5.3" E | |
| Height: | 300 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Medelsheim is an Outbound castle in the vicinity of the parish church of St. Martin of the district Medelsheim the community Gersheim in Saarpfalz district in Saarland .
The founding of the castle around 1300 goes back to the Counts of Zweibrücken and served to protect a medieval salt road called "Duser Straße". For the first time in 1334 Count Walram II von Zweibrücken referred to Archbishop Baldwin of Trier his property as "city and castle". In 1656 the castle was mentioned in a Leyen's document and was last inhabited and preserved in 1576.
Excavations made it possible to determine the location of the former castle in the area opposite the current parish church of St. Martin.
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon, Volume 3: IN . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2005, ISBN 3-927754-54-4 , pp. 520–527.
Web links
- Entry on Medelsheim Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Medelsheim Castle , gersheim.de
- Medelsheim Castle and City , saarlandbilder.net