Wildenstein Castle (Palatinate)
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hill castle, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Free nobles | |
| Place: | Dannenfels | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 36 '51.1 " N , 7 ° 55' 29.6" E | |
| Height: | 486 m above sea level NN | |
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The Wildenstein Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a 486 m above sea level. NN high hill in the "Wildensteiner Tal" hidden in a forest at the foot of the Donnersberg near Dannenfels in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
The castle belongs to the type of hill castles (motte). Together with the three other castle ruins Falkenstein , Hohenfels and Tannenfels it formed the wreath of the Donnersberg castles .
history
Nothing is known about the exact period when the castle was built. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1276 when the complex passed to his daughter Lukardis after the death of Philip V von Bolanden. Thereafter, further mentions were always made in connection with a change of ownership, so the castle was exchanged for the castle Gleichen between 1304 and 1308 in the imperial possession of King Albrecht von Habsburg , in 1321 King Friedrich the beautiful locum Wildenstein enfeoffed to Count Philipp von Sponheim for two decades - Dannenfels and finally in 1328 she became an afterfief of the Counts of Leiningen . Presumably it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War (1618–1648). In 1657 the castle was already described as a ruin.
In 1938 the ruin was owned by the Albisheim community. Excavations took place in 1963, during which crossbow bolts, arrow and spearheads as well as a Romanesque key were found. Today the castle is in the Dannenfels district.
investment
Only the remains of an outer wall and the keep remain from the former moth enclosure . In addition, the neck ditch and a cistern carved into the rock can be seen. Nothing is known about the appearance of the castle, how big it once was.
literature
- ↑ Notice board at the castle, seen in 2009
- ↑ Ulrich Burkhart, Stefan Ulrich: Wildenstein in Pfälzisches Burgen-Lexikon IV.2 St-Z , Kaiserslautern 2007, ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0
- ^ Arndt Hartung: Palatinate Burgenrevier , p. 78, Landau 1985, ISBN 3-9801043-3-8