Wildenburg Castle (Wildenburger Land)

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Wildenburg Castle
Wildenburg Castle

Wildenburg Castle

Creation time : around 1230
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Preserved essential parts
Standing position : Nobles, commoners
Place: Friesenhagen
Geographical location 50 ° 54 '54 "  N , 7 ° 49' 4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '54 "  N , 7 ° 49' 4"  E
Wildenburg Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Wildenburg Castle
Wildenburg Castle, aerial photo (2020)

The Wildenstein Castle is a small castle building in Wildburger land in the northern part of the district Altenkirchen at Friesenhagen above the Set in the valley small castle settlement Wildburg on the road that Friesenhagen over Wildburg with the former station of the same name at the decommissioned and now mined Finnentrop-Freudenberg railway connects.

history

The term “Wildenburger Land” has been mentioned in the homeland and history books since the beginning of the 15th century. At that time the owner of this estate was Gerhard von Wildenburg. The property was administered from Wildenburg Castle , which is now called "Burg Wildenburg".

The Wildenburg is the ancestral seat of the Lords of Wildenburg , who in the early 13th century as Lords of Aremberg were bailiffs of the Werden property in that area. They built the castle after which they named themselves in 1239. The last master of the Wildenburg, Hermann von Wildenburg, died in 1418. His nephews, the sons of his sister Jutta, who had been married to Johann von Hatzfeldt since 1387, inherited the Wildenburg. The von Hatzfeldt family has owned the castle ever since ; In 1806 the Wildenburger Land fell to the Grand Duchy of Berg , in 1815 to Prussia and in 1946 to Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1808 to 1815 Wildenburg was the seat of a cantonal administration in the Sieg department before it was given up in the mid-19th century and fell into disrepair.

description

The complex, which was preserved and inhabited around 1830, was used as a quarry in the late 19th century, which is why it is largely in ruins today. The hilltop castle stands on a mountain spur that slopes steeply on three sides ; it thus dominated the past Bergische Eisenstrasse , later called Hileweg in 1048 . Have been preserved except walls trains of more than 20 meters high and round the keep , a Baroque dome owns and partly verschiefert and remains of buildings dating from the 14th to the 18th century and a polygonal bastion of 15-16. Century, which was expanded in 1757 and 1932/33.

Only the outer bailey can be visited at any time. The buildings in which the von Hatzfeldtsche Försterei are housed are privately owned.

literature

  • Jens Friedhoff : Structural maintenance and furnishing of the Wildenburg and Schönstein castles in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . In: Castles and palaces in the Westerwald. Historic residential buildings between Sieg, Lahn, Dill and Rhine. Hachenburg 1999, pp. 33-40.
  • Konrad Fuchs: Art monuments of the Altenkirchen district (II) . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen (Westerwald). 1976.
  • Horst Günther Koch: Bergland to Sieg, Heller and Wied - impressions, notes and pictures of a trip through the Altenkirchen district . Siegen (self-published), 1977.

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