Neu-Ems Castle

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Neu-Ems Castle
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Alternative name (s): Glopper Castle
Creation time : around 1343
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Receive
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Hohenems
Geographical location 47 ° 22 '6 "  N , 9 ° 42' 20"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '6 "  N , 9 ° 42' 20"  E
Height: 692  m above sea level A.
Neu-Ems Castle (Vorarlberg)
Neu-Ems Castle
Glopper Castle

The Neu-Ems Castle , also called "Castle Glopper" or popularly known as "Glopper" is a medieval hilltop castle site in the Vorarlberg town of Hohenems .

history

The complex was a castle of the noble and knight dynasty of the Lords of Ems .

In 1343 knight Ulrich I von Ems built a new castle on the ridge of the Rhine Valley in Emsreute, near his fortress Alt- Ems, with the permission of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria , in order to create a permanent refuge for his large family in troubled times.

In 1407 during the Appenzell War, the castle of the former Counts of Hohenems was destroyed for the first time and immediately rebuilt.

In 1603 a chapel was set up on the ground floor, of which no remains have survived except for two pointed arched windows in the north wall. The former winged altar of this chapel (Antwerp master, around 1515–1520) has been in the Tyrolean State Museum since 1835 .

Since 1843, this exceptionally uniform architectural ensemble is from small-scale stronghold with bergfriedartigem attached bulwark, Palas and of deeper Vorburg privately owned family Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems .

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