Waldeck Castle (Odenwald)

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Waldeck Castle
Creation time : around 1250 to 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Noble Free
Place: Vorderheubach
Geographical location 49 ° 29 '18.2 "  N , 8 ° 47' 16.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '18.2 "  N , 8 ° 47' 16.4"  E
Height: 315  m above sea level NN
Waldeck Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Waldeck Castle

The castle Waldeck is the ruin of a Spur castle in Vorderheubach , a modern suburb of Heiligkreuzsteinach , in the Rhine-Neckar region in Baden-Württemberg .

location

The remains of the former hilltop castle are located at 315  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur between the Steinach valley and that of its small right tributary Heubach, a few steps from Heiligkreuzsteinach-Schafhof in the Odenwald .

history

The castle was built by the Lords of Strahlberg , a noble family , who is known from the second half of the 12th to the beginning of the 15th century. Their ancestral home was the Strahlenburg in Schriesheim , built around 1235 , where the family had originally built up a small lordship on the basis of bailiwick rights , which they held as a fief from the Ellwangen monastery .

In the second half of the 13th century, Conrad II von Strahlberg built Waldeck Castle. After his brother Eberhard († 1293) became Bishop of Worms in 1291 , he enfeoffed his nephew, Conrad III. von Strahlenburg, with an extensive area in the Steinach Valley north of Neckarsteinach , which Conrad used between 1293 and 1316 to found clearing settlements ( Heiligkreuzsteinach , Bärsbach, Eiterbach , Lampenhain, Altneudorf, Vorderheubach , Altenbach ), which were combined in the rule of Waldeck .

In 1301, Conrad's widow and her sons Conrad IV and Rennewart II vonhlenberg opened the castles Waldeck and Strahlberg to the Count Palatine Ruprecht and granted him a right of first refusal. However, in 1310 the castle was pledged to the diocese of Worms. In 1357 Siegfried von Strahlberg sold the castle and rule of Waldeck to Count Palatine Ruprecht I. The Count Palatine sold Waldeck in 1388 to the family of the knight circle of Lindenfels , but finally acquired it in 1537 under Elector Ludwig V.

The Palatine Administration set up a separate administrative district in a former manor. Since the administrator was referred to as the "cellar" and had his official residence at Waldeck Castle, the area was now referred to as the " Waldeck Cellar ". The basement was responsible for administration, jurisdiction and taxes.

The castle was destroyed at the beginning of the Thirty Years War . The winery was moved to Schönau , where it was located until 1803.

investment

The complex was moth-like and surrounded by an irregular polygonal ring wall about 1.80 to 2.20 meters thick.

Only the remains of two flanking towers remain from the destroyed castle .

literature

  • Hermann Brunn: 1200 years of Schriesheim. Sudetendeutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Mannheim 1964.
  • Frank Göttmann : The Strahlbergers, the Count Palatine and the Kessler. In: Alzeyer history sheets. Vol. 18, 1983, ISSN  0569-1613 , pp. 48-70, online .
  • Rainer Kunze: The Hirschberg-Waldecker and their castles. In: Mannheim history sheets. NF Vol. 5, 1998, ISSN  0948-2784 , pp. 9-32.
  • Peter W. Sattler, Marion Sattler: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald. A guide to the historical sights. Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 .
  • Stefan Grathoff: Archbishop's castles of Mainz. Acquisition and function of rulership of the castle using the example of the Archbishops of Mainz in the High and Late Middle Ages (= historical regional studies. Vol. 58). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08240-9 (also: Mainz, University, dissertation, 1996).

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