Rheingrafenstein Castle
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| Creation time : | around 1000 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains, vaulted cellar | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Bad Munster am Stein-Ebernburg | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 48 '28.1 " N , 7 ° 51' 1.1" E | |
| Height: | 245 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Rheingrafenstein is the ruin of a rock castle on a 136 m high porphyry rock formation at 245 m above sea level. NN , the Rheingrafenstein , known a thousand years ago as Huhinstein , directly on the Nahe opposite Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg , a district of Bad Kreuznach in the district of the same name .
history
The castle was probably built by the Emichonen ( Nahegaugrafen ) in the 11th to 12th centuries . It is definitely the ancestral seat of the Knights of the Stone, who later became Counts of the Wild and Rhine , and remained in their possession until the French Revolution. The von Stein gentlemen appeared as early as the 12th century without a clear distinction from nobles of the same name on the Nahe. Rheingrafenstein Castle was first mentioned beyond doubt in the 13th century. As early as the second half of the 12th century, the Lords of Stein acquired the title and property of the county in the Rheingau through marriage . Wolfram von Stein first called himself “Rheingraf” in 1196, so the name was transferred to the castle.
During the Thirty Years' War the castle was conquered by the Spaniards and destroyed by troops of the French general Mélac in the War of the Palatinate Succession in 1688 . The remains were used to build a salt works in 1721 . The residence of the last resident princely line of Grumbach was then moved to Gaugrehweiler .
The information board on the castle ruins says:
On the history of Rheingrafenstein Castle
In the 11th century the castle was built on what was then known as the "Huhinstein" rock. Their owners called themselves "Herren vom Stein". Through the marriage of Siegfried I vom Stein to Lukardis, the daughter of the Rhine Count Embrich vom Rheinberg, her son Wolfram inherited the Rhine county on the right bank of the Rhine. After the Battle of Sprendlingen in 1279, Siegfried II lost his possessions on the right bank of the Rhine to the Archbishop of Mainz and relocated his residence here and named the rock "Rheingrafenstein". In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Rhine Counts inherited the Wildgrafschaft and half of the County of Salm through marriage. In 1610 a separate Rhine Count line was formed - the "Rheingrafensteinische". During the Thirty Years War the Rheingrafenstein was taken by the Spaniards and the Swedes. During the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, the castle was destroyed by General Mélac under the French King Louis XIV. In 1721 the ruins were released for the construction of the salt works in Münster. In 1835 the descendants of the "Wild- und Rheingrafen", who were prince in 1632, bought the Rheingrafenstein and the Huttental back from the municipality of Münster.
investment
Parts of the ring , a vaulted cellar, a few stairs to the former residential tower and the foundation walls of the former stair tower are still preserved. Another staircase leads through a rock to a viewing platform.
On the southern slope of the rock is the Affenstein castle (from "Afterstein").
literature
- Alexander Thon (Ed.): How swallow nests glued to the rock. Castles in the Northern Palatinate . 1st ed., Pp. 130-135; Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2005; ISBN 3-7954-1674-4 .
- Alexander Thon, Marin Wenz: Rheingrafenstein . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon . Volume 4./1. O-Sp, pp. 242-258, Kaiserslautern 2007; ISBN 3-927754-56-0
Web links
- Rheingrafenstein castle ruins on the homepage of the Rheingrafenstein Tourist Office
- Rheingrafenstein ( memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at burgenspiegel.de
- Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state