Naumburg Castle (Bärenbach)
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 Naumburg castle ruins - tower |
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| Alternative name (s): | Nuenburc, Nuenburg, Neuchâtel | |
| Creation time : | 1146 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Bärenbach | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 45 '6.9 " N , 7 ° 25' 55.5" E | |
| Height: | 243 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Naumburg is the ruins of a hilltop castle near Bärenbach in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The remains of the former castle complex are located on a hill in the Naheland on federal road 41 between Idar-Oberstein and Kirn .
history
The Naumburg (= Neuchâtel) got its name from the re-establishment of the Kyrburg above Kirn or the Hachenfels fortress . The first mention should have been in 1146, when Raugraf Emicho called himself "Count of Nuenburc". 50 years later Werner von Bolanden claimed that he had been enfeoffed with castle "Nuenburg iuxta Kirberg" by Duke Konrad, which was only a temporary ownership.
In 1323 Raugraf Konrad V of the Stolzenberger line gave the "Veste Nuenburg bei Kyr" to Archbishop Balduin of Trier for 600 pounds of Heller . However, Raugraf Heinrich von der Altenbaumburger Linie determined his allod in a will in 1325 in favor of his wife and children as well as in favor of the husband of his stepdaughter Count Philipp von Sponheim-Bolanden . Among them appeared the castle Nauwenborg, Becherbach, Merxheim, Solzbach, Lembach, Leybelbach as well as villages and courts.
Since the money circumstances of the Raugrafen were always bad, they gradually sold their property. Raugraf Georg II (von Stolzenberg) pledged half of Nunburg Castle to Count Walram von Sponheim in 1349. Raugraf Ruprecht IV. (Von Altenbaumburg) did the same in 1362 with the villages of Becherbach, Limbach, Sulzbach and Hof Gauschisberg.
The assignment finally took place in 1381 by Raugraf Heinrich V the last of the Altenbaumburg line to Count Simon III. from Sponheim . After that, the castle was only the administrative seat, and the Naumburg office was an accessory to the front county of Sponheim . It included the courts of Becherbach , Bärenbach, Martin-Weierbach , shares in Oberreidenbach and Löllbach and Hintersassen in several localities.
During the division in 1707, the office was assigned to the Baden portion. In 1776 the official seat was moved to Herrstein . The French destroyed the castle in 1803. Extensive securing and uncovering work was carried out from 1986 to 1994.
Only a few of the foundations of the former castle can be seen today.
literature
- Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich u. Achim Wendt, "... where a mighty tower defiantly looks down". Castles in the Hunsrück and on the Nahe, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2493-0 , pp. 114–117.
- Ludwig Petry (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 5: Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 275). 3rd revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-27503-1 , p. 249 f.
- Rudolf Hornberger, Dr. Werner Vogt: Castles and palaces on the Rhine and Nahe , Sparkasse Rhein-Nahe (ed.), 1993
Web links
- Entry on Naumburg Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute