Schwarzenfels Castle

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Schwarzenfels Castle
Schwarzenfels Castle

Schwarzenfels Castle

Creation time : 1280
Castle type : Höhenburg, location
Conservation status: Ruin (core castle) ,
preserved or essential parts preserved (stables)
Standing position : Count
Construction: Dolerite
Place: Schwarzenfels
Geographical location 50 ° 18 '1.4 "  N , 9 ° 40' 14.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '1.4 "  N , 9 ° 40' 14.9"  E
Height: 427  m above sea level NN
Schwarzenfels Castle (Hesse)
Schwarzenfels Castle

The Castle Blackrock is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a 427  m above sea level. NN high hill in the district of Schwarzenfels in the Sinntal municipality in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse . It is said to take its name from the black dolerite from which it is made.

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1280. In 1333 she came to the County of Hanau with an inheritance from the Rieneck family . It was an imperial fiefdom and formed the administrative center of the Schwarzenfels office . Therefore, in the time after the castle complexes were built, it was expanded into a residential palace, which is still evidenced by the richly decorated portal from 1621 with the fountain in front of it.

The Lords and Counts of Hanau repeatedly used the castle, as well as the castles in Steinau and Windecken, as furnishings for widows from the Hanau family who took up residence there. In the inheritance dispute between Count Philipp Ludwig II. And his brother, Count Albrecht , the latter was finally awarded the offices of Schwarzenfels, Ortenberg , the Naumburg winery and the Hanau share in Assenheim . Albrecht took up residence at the castle, and his line was named after her "Hanau-Munzenberg-Schwarzenfels". This sideline of the Hanau family died out in the next generation with Johann Ernst von Hanau-Münzenberg -Schwarzenfels, who previously inherited the entire county of Hanau-Münzenberg for a few months in 1641 and 1642. During the Thirty Years' War the castle was destroyed and the main castle abandoned. In 1643, the Schwarzenfels office and castle were given to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as pledge, along with other securities . It was supposed to vouch for unpaid costs that had arisen in connection with the liberation of the city of Hanau from the siege by imperial troops in 1636 of the landgraviate. The Counts of Hanau were no longer able to redeem this pledge from Hessen-Kassel. The castle was managed like landgrave property, even after Hessen-Kassel in 1736 after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. who inherited the county of Hanau-Munzenberg including the castle. It was not until 1786 that the castle was under Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hanau again assigned to the administration of the County of Hanau.

After the annexation of the Electorate of Hesse as a result of the German War in 1866, the Prussian tax authorities took over the complex. Since he had no use for it, he let all the no longer used parts expire or sold them, in 1877 for example the castle inn. It was not until the end of the 19th century that the decline was halted. The state of Hesse , legal successor to the Prussian state as owner, had temporarily housed a forest administration here.

investment

There are still considerable remains of the wall of the castle, and the view from the keep shows its dominant position. The center of the renovated complex is the large stables building from 1557. The 25-meter-high keep was extensively renovated in 2015/16, with steel exterior and interior stairs and a new viewing platform made of metal grating and glass.

The listed castle belongs to the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse and has been leased to an association that was initiated by the citizens of Schwarzenfels since 2007. This wants to revive the castle sustainably, z. B. by using the youth hostel, which has been located on the first floor of the Marstall building since 1979 .

Events

  • Historical adventure Christmas market

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 371.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Hessendienst of the State Chancellery, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 331 f.
  • Christian Ottersbach: The castles of the lords and counts of Hanau (1166–1642). Studies on castle politics and castle architecture of a noble house. (=  Hanauer Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 51). Verlag Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2018, ISBN 978-3-935395-29-8 , pp. 541-571.
  • Karl Ulrich: Schwarzenfels. Contributions to the chronicle. Griebel, Schlüchtern 2006, ISBN 3-923766-21-1 .
  • Georg Wolff : The origin of the court and the Schwarzenfels castle . In: Messages from the Hanau District Association . Issue 5 (1876), p. 45 ff.
  • Georg Wolff: About the origin of the Schwarzenfels court . In: Hanauisches Magazin 2 (1922/23), No. 10–12.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The tower of Schwarzenfels Castle is being renovated for 500,000 euros in the Fuldaer Zeitung on September 20, 2015, accessed on September 5, 2016
  2. Historical adventure Christmas market at Schwarzenfels Castle. In: Ritter-Schwarzenfels.de. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  3. Historical adventure Christmas market at Schwarzenfels Castle. In: Weihnachtsmarkt-Deutschland.de. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .