Wilenstein-Flörsheim Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | (mostly) Wilenstein Castle, (rarely) Willenstein Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1152 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | partially restored | |
| Standing position : | Emperors, ministerials, counts | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 21 '14.9 " N , 7 ° 45' 11.5" E | |
| Height: | 400 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Wilenstein-Florsheim , mostly Wilenstein Castle , rarely Will Stein , the partially restored ruins of a hilltop castle from the 12th century in the district of Kaiserslautern ( Rheinland-Pfalz ).
The original single castle Wilenstein later became a double castle complex together with the castle Flörsheim, which was built in 1347 by the lords of Flersheim . During the Thirty Years' War , the entire ensemble was seriously affected in 1633/34. From the former double castle only remains of the wall are preserved today, most of which belong to the upper castle.
Geographical location
Wilenstein Castle is located in the northwestern Palatinate Forest on the right above the Karlstal of the Moosalb on a mountain spur at 400 m above sea level. NHN and belongs to the district of Trippstadt .
history
The older Wilenstein Castle was probably built in 1152 by the later Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa to protect the empire around Kaiserslautern and to secure the Staufer property. In 1169 a Merbodo von Wartenberg was verifiable as a noble von Wilenstein, who acted as a ministerial . In 1247 the Counts of Leiningen were feudal lords of the castle. In 1273 knight Johannes von Wilenstein seized a stone cross 7 km southeast of the castle, which the Lords of Hohenecken had erected as a national emblem, and had his own coat of arms chiseled into it. "Herr Johanns Creutz" was first mentioned in a document in 1551 and still exists today in real terms and in the place name of the hamlet Johanniskreuz that was created there .
In 1300 the Wilenstein line of the Wartenberg family died out. During inheritance disputes between Raugraf Konrad and Wildgraf Gottfried in 1334, the castle was destroyed, but then rebuilt. The knight dynasty of the Flersheimers and the lineage count widow von Falkenstein each received half of the castle in 1347 as a fief. The plant was divided into two parts; the eastern, high aristocratic Falkensteiner part, called Oberburg , and the western, low aristocratic Flersheim part, which was called the lower castle , emerged. In the beginning there were always arguments between the neighbors, before a truce was concluded after a year. In 1481 the castle fell completely to the Palatinate as a result of disputes about inheritance in Leiningen .
In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the castle was destroyed in 1633/34 and was probably uninhabited in the following period. In 1719 Baron Ludwig Anton von Hacke , originally from the ancient Thuringian nobility, acquired the ruins and the surrounding forest district, but lived in his palace residence in Trippstadt, 1 km to the east . During the French Revolution , the castle fell to France in 1792 . In 1803 it became the property of Alsace , and in 1865 it was bought by the Kingdom of Bavaria .
investment
The ruins of the upper castle has remains of curtain wall , gate , Palas , pentagonal keep and Kennel on. Parts of the ruins of the lower castle right next to it are freely accessible.
At the beginning of the 1960s, part of the upper castle was restored and expanded into a school camp, which has been privately owned by a development association since 1962. The home is run as a self-catering house with 40 places and can accommodate school classes, youth and leisure groups.
literature
- Walter Eitelmann: Knight Stones in the Palatinate Forest . 4th, revised and significantly expanded edition. Palatinate Forest Association, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1998, ISBN 3-00-003544-3 .
- Arndt Hartung, Walter Hartung: Palatinate Castle Brevier: Postgraduate Studies . 6th edition. Palatinate Publishing House , Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-9801043-0-3 .
- Walter Herrmann: On Red Rock . Braun, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-7650-8286-4 .
- Wolfgang Medding: Castles and palaces in the Palatinate and on the Saar (= castles, palaces, mansions . Volume 23 ). Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-8035-1124-0 .
- Günter Stein : Castles and palaces in the Palatinate . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-8035-8356-X .
Web links
- Sponsoring Association of Wilenstein Castle
- Wilenstein-Flörsheim castle ruins at burgenreich.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilenstein-Flörsheim castle ruins, on burgenreich.de.
- ^ Entry on Wilenstein in the private database "Alle Burgen".