Treuenfels Castle
| Treuenfels Castle | ||
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 Located on a small mountain cone. There are only sparse remains. Nature is taking back the ruins with hedges / bushes and trees. The photo shows the south view of the ruin from the main road (B 48). |
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| Alternative name (s): | Bernhardsschlösschen | |
| Creation time : | 1357 to 1365 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Altenbamberg | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 46 '59.5 " N , 7 ° 50' 1.9" E | |
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The castle Treuenfels even Bernhard castle called, is the ruin of a Spur castle on a mountain ridge south of the ruins Altenbaumburg in the local church Altenbamberg in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
1357 received Knight Diez of Wachenheim , the brothers Philip and Henry de Montfort , Berthold gen. Rod of (New) -Bamberg and the squire Johann Schweifkrusel of Partenheim of Palatine Ruprecht II. On Mount permission Lusebohel a castle Truwenfels to build . The Montfort came from the nearby Hallgarten Castle, which was built in the 12th century by the Counts of Veldenz to protect the military road from Obermoschel to Sponheim. Eberhard von Lautern was used as a fief. In 1247 his son called himself Ritter von Montfort. In 1432, the Montfort family died out here.
In the 16th century, the castle complex was owned by Eberhard Vetzers von Geispitzheim and a Philipp Back as a fiefdom of the Electoral Palatinate, and until the 17th century it was owned by the Sturmfeder family, owners of the Sturmfederisches Schloss in Dirmstein .
Coat of arms of the Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler family
description
The now overgrown small castle complex still shows up to eight meters high remains of the ring wall made of quarry stone masonry and is privately owned. The castle is often incorrectly referred to as the Vorwerk of the Altenbaumburg.
literature
- Alexander Thon: New findings on the history of Treuenfels Castle , Deutsche Burgenvereinigung (Hrsg.), 2007, in: Zeitschrift Burgen und Schlösser 2/2007 p. 86ff
Web links
- Entry on Treuenfels Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".