Spangenberg Castle
| Spangenberg Castle | ||
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 Spangenberg Castle, Northern View from Erfenstein Castle from |
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| Creation time : | probably 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | partially reconstructed ruin | |
| Standing position : | initially ministerial | |
| Place: | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (forest area) | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 21 '4.2 " N , 8 ° 0' 57.6" E | |
| Height: | 250 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Spangenberg Castle is the partly reconstructed ruins of a medieval Spur castle in the Palatinate Forest on the forest district of the district Laugh Speyerdorf of Neustadt an der Weinstraße ( Rheinland-Pfalz ). It is connected to the neighboring Erfenstein Castle through the legend of the Leather Bridge .
Geographical location
The castle is 250 m above sea level. NHN right above the Speyerbach , which flows through the Elmsteiner Valley , on the northwest spur of the Schloßberg ( 343.2 m ). The settlement of Erfenstein in the north, which belongs to the local community Esthal , is only 200 m away (as the crow flies).
investment
From the fore-castle (lower castle) from the ruins shows on a sandstone rock the fixed Palas , the castle gate of the main castle (Obernburg) and the shield wall .
history
Spangenberg Castle was probably built in the 11th century. Allegedly through a donation from the Speyer bishop Johannes I in 1100, it came into the possession of the Speyer Monastery , which had it administered as a feudal castle by ministerials . The castle was entrusted to the knight Diether von Zoller in 1317 as a castle man. Eberhard von Sickingen became the fiefdom of the castle in 1431 and Heinrich von Remchingen succeeded him in 1439.
Spangenberg Castle and the neighboring Erfenstein Castle always belonged to different lords - at the beginning Spangenberg, as mentioned, the Speyer prince-bishop and Erfenstein the Counts of Leiningen - and were in corresponding competition with each other. When the owners later changed, the two castles, first from Erfenstein, then from Spangenberg , were destroyed in 1470 in the course of the Weißenburg feud between Elector Friedrich I of the Palatinate and his cousin, Duke Ludwig I of Palatinate-Zweibrücken .
In 1505 a "mare garden" was laid out in the nearby forest . Spangenberg Castle, made habitable again, served as the mare master's residence for almost 100 years. But in the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) the castle was destroyed again in the first year of the war by the mercenary leader Ernst von Mansfeld , who worked for the Protestant Union , and at the beginning of the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688) it was finally destroyed by the troops of Louis XIV , King of France.
Around 1900 the castle ruins became municipal property. Today the partially reconstructed ruin is owned by the city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.
legend
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon . tape 4 .1 O – Sp . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2007, ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0 , p. 505-519 .
- Alexander Thon (Hrsg.): How swallows nests glued to the rocks .. Castles in the North Palatinate. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1674-4 , p. 146-151 .
Web links
- Extract from the Palatinate castle lexicon : Burg Spangenberg at heimat-pfalz.de
- Spangenberg Castle Association
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Spangenberg Castle. heimat-pfalz.de, accessed on March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Walter Herrmann: On red rock . G. Braun Buchverlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2004, ISBN 3-7650-8286-4 , p. 168-171 .