Schönecken Castle
| Schönecken Castle | ||
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 Castle ruin Schönecken in June 2005 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Bella Costa, Clara Costa | |
| Creation time : | around 1230 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Enclosing walls | |
| Standing position : | Counts, nobles | |
| Place: | Beautiful corners | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 9 '36.8 " N , 6 ° 27' 43.5" E | |
| Height: | 467 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Burg Schönecken is the ruins of a hilltop castle on 467 m above sea level. NN above the local community of the same name Schönecken im Nimstal in the West Eifel ( Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm ) in Rhineland-Palatinate . The castle stood on the lowest ridge in the middle of a basin. The complex is protected on all sides by higher mountains.
The castle ruin Schönecken is also called "Bella Costa" or "Clara Costa".
history
Short legend:
- 762 - King Pippin donates the Wetteldorf farm to the Prüm monastery. The Counts of Vianden became the abbey patrons .
- around 1230 - Presumably construction of the "Clara Costa" castle.
- 1247 - Albertus Magnus and Konrad von Hochstaden at the castle
- 1264 - Heinrich von Vianden calls himself "Herr von Schönecken".
- 1288 - Gerhard von Schönecken kills two Prüm monks in a dispute.
- 1352 - Hartard von Schönecken is killed in the fight for Balduin von Trier.
- 1370 - Johann, the last gentleman from Schönecken, dies.
- 1384 - Schönecken comes to the Electorate of Trier. The castle becomes the residence of the elector.
- 1593 - Knight and Burgmann Hermann von Hersel dies on July 13th and is buried in Sankt Leodegar (Catholic parish church) in Wetteldorf.
- 1643 - The castle is captured by mercenaries.
- 1802 - Schönecken burns down.
- 1804 - Under French administration, the castle is auctioned off for demolition.
- 1848 - The Kingdom of Prussia becomes the owner.
- 1906 - First restorations of the castle by the Kgr. Prussia.
- 1920s - Dr. Johannes Schreiber (1893–1978) prevents the ruin from being finally demolished.
- 1970–1975 - the fortified towers and defensive walls of the castle ruins were renovated by the Rhineland-Palatinate palace administration.
- 1984–1985 - Restoration of the castle and the castle hill with shotcrete.
- 2006 - Closure of the castle staircase due to the danger of the castle wall collapsing; Renovation is planned; Increased weather damage was found on the towers.
- 2018–2020 - Restoration by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Today's owner of the castle is the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Feud between Hartard von Schönecken and Otto von Schönberg
(between 1340 and 1350)
A feud that Hartard had with Otto von Schönberg was not very successful . According to this story, some of Herr von Schönberg's lancers went to Schönecken to buy grain there, which at the time was lacking in the Schönberg area. Hartard ordered his people to chase the Schönbergers away. In order to avenge this abuse, Otto von Schönberg advanced in front of Schönecken and besieged the castle. Hartard scoffed at him and called out to him from the castle: "Let me come and visit me, Mr. Otto," to which Otto replied: "The Tuifel is killing you on the earth, you slow to poke, my servants are not women, koum herous, there you fool the servants! ” Hartard then made a failure, defeated the Schönbergers and pursued them to Schönberg. Otto sat down at Schönberg and received support from his subjects. After a violent fight, the Schöneckers fled and Hartard's son was slain. The women of Schoenberg are said to have torn its body to pieces and thrown it to the dogs. Otto pursued the Schöneckers to Schönecken and here there was another fight in which Otto and Hartard met and fought against each other. Otto split Hartard's helmet and wounded his head, whereupon Hartard fled and threw himself into his castle, which Otto was now besieging. In the end, Hartard felt compelled to buy the enemy's withdrawal for 100 guilders.
investment
The castle complex was a 120-meter-long rectangular complex with a circular wall and three towers protruding outwards. In the east the complex is bordered by a wide neck ditch . The three towers are on the south side, two of which are still three storeys high. The two round towers probably date from the 13th or 14th century, the middle rectangular one is more recent. All three towers and the connecting pieces of wall belonged to a multi-storey residential building by the 16th century at the latest, as a painting from the 18th century shows.
Schönecken Castle, aerial photo (2015)
Inner courtyard with towers in August 2003
Castle ruins
Web links
- Entry on Castle Schönecken in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- http://www.schoenecken.com
- http://www.schoenecken.de