Odenbach Castle
| Odenbach Castle | ||
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 Late Romanesque keep with a humpback cuboid |
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| Alternative name (s): | Weiherturm | |
| Creation time : | around 1150 to 1180 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Keep, curtain wall | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Odenbach | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 40 '59 " N , 7 ° 39' 0.2" E | |
| Height: | 160 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Odenbach later, pond tower called, is the ruins of a moated castle in the municipality Odenbach in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The moated castle (later also called moated castle), built by the Counts of Veldenz at the confluence of the Odenbach in the Glan between 1150 and 1180 , was mentioned in 1202. Another owner of the castle was the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . From 1620 to 1623 the castle became uninhabitable and in 1683 the tower was destroyed in a demolition by the French. In the winter of 1850/51 the rest of the castle collapsed. From the former castle is still the rest of the renovated late Romanesque the keep , the current pond tower , as a symbol of the community as well as the renovated and walk- circular wall .
Varia
Duke Friedrich Ludwig von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Landsberg (1619–1681), regent of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, married after the death of his first wife Juliane Magdalena von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1621–1672) the civil wife Maria Elisabeth Hepp (1635–1722) ). Since this was a wife who was not of equal status, the children from this connection should not be dynastically entitled to inheritance and were given the rank and name of Freiherr von Fürstenwarther, Burgsassen zu Odenbach . The addition to the name of Odenbach Castle, however, was only a melodious title, as the complex was already uninhabitable at that time. The family has a tower as a coat of arms, which probably also symbolizes that of Odenbach Castle. The most famous of these namesake was the Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Freiherr Friedrich Karl von Fürstenwarther (1769-1856), whose official portraits usually include the Odenbacher name affix.
literature
- Wolfgang Medding: Castles and palaces in the Palatinate and on the Saar . 4th edition. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
Web links
- Entry on Odenbach Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Fürstenwarther, Freiherrn . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 24 ( digitized version ).