Castle Schlosseck

Castle Schlosseck
	Castle Schlosseck
Alternative name (s):	Schloßeck
Creation time :	around 900 to 1000
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Unknown assignment
Place:	Bad Dürkheim- Hardenburg
Geographical location	49 ° 27 '58.3 " N , 8 ° 6' 23" E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '58.3 " N , 8 ° 6' 23" E

Castle Schlosseck , also spelled Schloßeck , is a castle ruin dating from the Hohenstaufen era . Century to dated facility was built. It is located near Hardenburg, a district of Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate , above the Isenach valley on a ledge of the Rahnfels at an altitude of 303 m above sea level. NHN .

history

Floor plan sketch

Eagle at the gate

Sheet mask with branches creeping out of the mouth.

There is no documentary evidence of the castle and its original name is unknown. The name Schlosseck is a post-medieval folk oral tradition. The oldest building remains date to the 9th or 10th century and go back to an early medieval refugee castle , which was built to protect against the Norman invasions (cf. the similar structures Heidenlöcher , Heidenschuh , Heidenburg , Waldschlössel ).

In the early 13th century a high medieval new building was built. In view of the territorial conditions at that time, the Counts of Leiningen can be accepted as builders. Archaeological excavations have shown that it fell victim to a fire in the same century, but was still inhabited in the 14th century.

Christian Mehlis carried out the first excavations on the site in 1879. The castle portal was rebuilt from found objects from 1883 to 1884. From 1988 to 1989, conservation measures were carried out on the castle. Since 1963 the complex has belonged to the state palace administration of Rhineland-Palatinate.

investment

The Hohenstaufen castle is based on the originally elongated oval early medieval complex. Towards the mountain side, this was shortened by a straight neck ditch , on which the foundation of a three-meter-thick shield wall leans. The basement of an 8.5-meter-wide and 11.5-meter-long pentagonal keep with a wall thickness of 2.5 meters and the remains of well-carved humpback blocks cut into the shield wall . Next to it rises the reconstructed castle portal with reliefs of eagles, just as they can be found at the gates of the Erkenbert ruins in Frankenthal and at the Worms Cathedral . In the archway there is a keystone with a leaf mask. The low wall height and the lack of construction debris and other components (especially one Palas ) suggest that the castle was never completed and only temporarily inhabited in provisional state.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d M. Backes: State castles, palaces and antiquities in Rhineland-Palatinate , page 152.
^ LANIS: Topographic Map. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .

literature

Magnus Backes: State castles, palaces and antiquities in Rhineland-Palatinate . Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-1566-7 , pages 152–153.

Arndt Hartung: Palatinate castle district. Palatinate Publishing House , Landau 1985, ISBN 3-9801043-0-3 .

Walter Herrmann: On Red Rock. A guide to the most beautiful castles in the Palatinate and Alsatian Wasgau. Braun, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2004, ISBN 3-7650-8286-4 .

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-219-4 , page 548.

Günter Stein : Castles and palaces in the Palatinate. Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-8035-8356-X .

Alexander Thon, Hans Reither, Peter Pohlit: "Like swallows' nests glued to the rocks ..." Castles in the Northern Palatinate. 1st edition. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1674-4 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Schlosseck - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[backes-1] M. Backes: State castles, palaces and antiquities in Rhineland-Palatinate , page 152.

[LANIS-2] LANIS: Topographic Map. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .