Tringenstein Castle

Tringenstein Castle
	South side of the castle hill (2008)
Creation time :	before 1350
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remnants and rubble
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Siegbach- Tringenstein
Geographical location	50 ° 45 '31 " N , 8 ° 24' 44.3" E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '31 " N , 8 ° 24' 44.3" E
Height:	532.6 m above sea level NHN

The castle Tringenstein is the ruins of a hilltop castle on 532 m above sea level. NN above the district Tringenstein of the municipality Siegbach in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .

history

In a document dated March 23, 1356, the new castle Burg Tringenstein is mentioned for the first time . It is probably identical to the "Murstein" castle, which is mentioned in a certificate of atonement in 1352. This new castle was built on the initiative of Countess Adelheid, widow of Count Otto II of Nassau-Dillenburg ( House Nassau ), in 1350/51 as a countermeasure to the new Hessian castle Neu-Dernbach on the Murstein mountain. The castle hill was owned by the noblemen of Bicken, line from Bicken to Marburg-Wolkersdorf . The village of Tringensten was created together with the castle.

Castle Tringenstein became the seat of the Nassau office (court) Tringenstein , which a bailiff board, the counterpart of the directly adjacent Hessian Office Blankenstein based on Burg Blankenstein in Gladenbach. The castle also served as a hunting lodge in the Count's hunting grounds in the Schelder Forest . Towards the end of the 15th century, Tringenstein Castle, after being expanded by Count Johann IV. , Was even a temporary residence a. a. the Countess Elisabeth. Even at the beginning of the Thirty Years War , the Dillenburg counts resided here for a long time. When the Tringenstein Office was combined with the Ebersbach Office in 1725, the last Tringenstein official moved his seat to Ebersbach.

Remnants of a building (2008)

Replica of Tringenstein Castle on the Burgberg

The castle was then uninhabited except for the castle servant and had no other function. After the Nassau-Dillenburg line died out in 1739, nobody was interested in the castle anymore. In the years 1773 and 1774 everything from the castle "that was exposed to theft" was sold. The building stood empty and fell into disrepair. The main house was closed in 1839 due to the risk of collapse. After that, the castle was used as a quarry and gradually demolished.

Today only a few remains of the wall and a replica of the castle can be seen on the castle hill.

literature

Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse - 800 castles Castle ruins and fortifications . 3rd edition, Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 422-423.

Web links

Commons : Tringenstein Castle - Collection of images

Wikisource: Tringenstein Castle in Merian's Topographia Hassiae - sources and full texts

State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Tringenstein Castle In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Handbook of the historical sites of Germany, VI Hessen, p. 435, ISBN 3-520-27403-5 .
View of Tringenstein Castle, 2nd half of the 18th century. Historical town views, plans and floor plans. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Tringenstein Castle. In: Burgenwelt. Retrieved July 18, 2009 .
Tringenstein Castle. In: Heimatverein Tringenstein. Archived from the original on February 3, 2011 ; Retrieved July 18, 2009 .