Scharfenberg Castle (Palatinate)
| Scharfenberg Castle | ||
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 Keep of Scharfenberg Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Coin | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministerials | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid | |
| Place: | Leinsweiler | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 11 '20.3 " N , 7 ° 59' 12.5" E | |
| Height: | 489 m above sea level NHN | |
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Scharfenberg Castle , also popularly known as Münz , is the ruin of a medieval rock castle in the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) above the small town of Annweiler in the southern Palatinate .
geography
The hilltop castle is located in the forest area of the local community Leinsweiler at a height of 489 m on the rocky crest of one of the typical rounded rocky mountains of the Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called. Scharfenberg Castle and its sister castles Trifels and Anebos are known as the Trifelsgruppe and are considered the landmark of Annweiler, which extends below the three castles in the Queich floodplain. The castle stables Fensterfels and Has are also in the immediate vicinity .
investment
The castle's hallmark is a 20 m high keep , which is encased in humpback blocks from the Staufer period. Additionally, there are parts of the fountain tower and the surrounding wall to be seen.
history
timeline
Scharfenberg Castle was built in the first half of the 12th century under the Hohenstaufen King Konrad III. who died in 1152. At first it served as a state prison . Scharfenberg named after its later owner, a ministerials family, she was at the beginning of the 13th century headquarters of the most important representative of this generation, the bishop of Speyer and Chancellor of the Reich , Konrad III. from Scharfenberg . The castle has been in ruins since it was destroyed during the Peasants' War in 1525 .
Popular name
The popular name "Münz" is often related to the right to mint , which Annweiler was granted in 1219 together with the town charter. With this justification it is assumed that the city minted its coins on the castle. However, this would have been very cumbersome and risky due to the physical distance and the remoteness. The name can be derived from the Latin munitio , which means fortress or bulwark . It is similar with many other buildings in the Palatinate that bear this name without being associated with a mint.
literature
- Rüdiger Bernges: rock castles in Wasgau . Warlich Druck Ahrweiler GmbH, Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-930376-25-3 , pp. 261-263.
- Walter Herrmann: On red rock . G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-7650-8286-4 , pp. 184-185.
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Volume 4.1. Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2007, ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0 , pp. 424–439.
- Alexander Thon (Ed.): ... like a banned, inaccessible magic castle. Castles in the southern Palatinate. 2nd, improved edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1570-5 , pp. 132-137.
Web links
- Entry on Scharfenberg Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Pictures of Scharfenberg Castle on Burgenparadies.de
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Post: Palatinate. Introduction to a language landscape. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau 1990, ISBN 978-3-87629-183-3 , p. 156 f.