Tannenfels Castle (Palatinate)
| Tannenfels Castle | ||
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 Wall remains |
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| Creation time : | around 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Hill castle, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Place: | Dannenfels | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 37 '45.1 " N , 7 ° 56' 18" E | |
| Height: | 460 m above sea level NN | |
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The Tannenfels Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) at 460 m above sea level. NN above the local community Dannenfels am Donnersberg in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
With the rule of Kirchheim, the property belonged to the Lords of Bolanden . At the end of the 13th century, most of the area came as an inheritance to the Counts of Sponheim . They founded a family line that resided here under the name Sponheim-Bolanden-Dannenfels .
The hill castle (Motte) was first mentioned in 1330 when Count Philipp von Sponheim-Bolanden-Dannenfels and his wife Lisa von Katzenelnbogen donated a chapel in the castle. Burgmann Bechtholf von Beckingen was employed at the castle in 1364. Around 1368, Heinrich II moved from Sponheim-Bolanden to nearby Kirchheimbolanden . After his death (1393), the castle fell to the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken via his granddaughter , and later in 1431 part of it passed to the Count Palatine .
In the Peasants' War in 1525, the castle was completely destroyed by rebellious farmers and later demolished. The ruins remained in the possession of the Nassau-Saarbrücken house until 1797.
Only small remains of a tower, a retaining wall and a well are left of the former moth system on an artificially created wall and hill system .
Castle chapel
For the aforementioned castle chapel , consecrated to St. Maria, Archbishop Gerlach of Mainz confirmed on December 20, 1354, a benefit donated by Philipp von Sponheim-Bolanden . In a document dated January 4, 1449, the Vicar General Siegfried Piscator from Mainz transferred the pastoral care of this chapel to the nearby Jakobskloster . Apparently it also served as a place of worship for the village of Dannenfels . In a description of the Kirchheim rule from 1657 it is recorded that a Protestant pastor lives in Dannenfels, but he has to preach in the parsonage because there is no church in the village. It goes on to say: "There was a church there before, it stood up at the castle, but it was ruined many years ago."
literature
- Marin dagger / Stefan Ulrich: Tannenfels . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit, Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Volume 4.2. Kaiserslautern 2007. pp. 83-88
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical website on Tannenfels Castle and the Sponheim-Bolanden family ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Alfons Hoffmann: St. Jakob Monastery on the Donnersberg , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, 1958, pp. 17, 18, 45 u. 46
