Winzingen Castle
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| Creation time : | around 900 to 1000 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Haardt | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 21 '42.8 " N , 8 ° 8' 8.6" E | |
| Height: | 230 m above sea level NHN | |
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Winzingen Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 230 m above sea level. NN on a hill of the Haardt above the district Haardt of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in the state Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The castle dates from the 10th century. The oldest surviving remains, in particular the ruins of the Nikolauskapelle and parts of the curtain wall , are dated to the 11th century. The name goes back to the village of Winzingen , which already existed in 774 and was merged into the city of Neustadt in 1892.
The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1146 with the knight Berthold von Winzingen. After his death, the castle was apparently transferred to the brother of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , Konrad von Hohenstaufen , in 1155 . Count Palatine Otto II appointed the Liningian Count Emich IV as Burgmann in 1248 . Ludwig the Bavarian gave the castle to his chancellor Hermann von Lichtenberg in 1324 ; it was pretty much disintegrated by this point. After the division of the Palatinate, Count Palatine Rudolf II appointed Count Emich V von Leiningen as Burgmann in 1350. Elector Friedrich II was born in the castle in 1482.
Destruction and looting took place in 1525 during the Peasants' War by a Gleisweiler peasant heap. In 1576 Count Palatine Johann Casimir inherited the castle and brought the complex into good condition; a painting from 1610 proves this. After the castle was occupied by the French in the Palatinate War of Succession , it was shot at by Hessian troops in 1696 and most of it was destroyed. Although the complex was partially restored as a summer residence after 1700, it fell into disrepair again from 1728.
In private ownership since 1804, the Neustadt merchant Schuster redesigned the area into a park-like garden with considerable effort, and the rest of the palace was expanded into a wine press hall. Winzingen Castle was shortlisted for castles in 1843 that were to be rebuilt for Crown Prince Maximilian . However, the decision was made in favor of the nearby Kästenburg, today's Hambach Castle . In 1875, Commerce Councilor August Ritter von Clemm , one of the co-founders of BASF , acquired the property and built an imposing villa on the northeast side , the Haardter Castle , also known as the Haardter Schlössel .
investment
The curtain wall , chapel , barrel-vaulted cellar and remains of the tower are still preserved from the Romanesque castle .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Stein : Castles and Palaces in the Palatinate , Frankfurt / Main 1976, ISBN 3-426-04405-6
- ↑ Alexander Thon (Ed.): How swallow nests glued to the rock. Castles in the Northern Palatinate . Regensburg 2005, pp. 158-161, ISBN 3-7954-1674-4