Zwingenberg Castle

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Zwingenberg Castle
Zwingenberg Castle 2009

Zwingenberg Castle 2009

Alternative name (s): Zwingenburg, Zwingenberg Castle
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Receive
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Zwingenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 25 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E
Zwingenberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Zwingenberg Castle
Aerial photo of Zwingenberg Castle 2016

The castle Zwingenberg , including Zwingenberg Castle or Castle Zwingenberg called, is in the Baden-Württemberg community Zwingenberg on the right slope of the Neckar river in the gorge cut through the Odenwald .

location

The spur castle was built in the spur location in the triangle of the mouth of the steep Wolf Gorge to the Neckar valley and is about 50 meters above the river.

history

The castle was probably built in the 13th century by the Hohenstaufen ministerial Wilhelm von Wimpfen , who is part of the von Kochendorf family . The first written mention dates from the year 1326. A nephew of Wilhelm von Wimpfen called himself von Zwingenberg . Since the Zwingenbergs were considered robber barons, they were expelled from the castle in 1363 and razed on behalf of the emperor . The Lords of Hirschhorn , enfeoffed with the Zwingenburg in 1403 , rebuilt it. After their line died out, ownership changed between Kurmainz , Kurpfalz and the Grand Duchy of Baden . Today's lord of the castle is Ludwig Prince of Baden (* 1937), a descendant of Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Baden .

Remains of Fürstenstein Castle are still located above Zwingenberg Castle .

Zwingenberg around 1850

Castle Festival

The castle festival takes place in the inner courtyard

Since 1983, the Castle Festival has been held in the open air every year in August at Zwingenberg Castle. Since the neighboring Wolf Gorge is said to have served as a template for Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz , this opera is the focus of the Castle Festival. But other operas and operettas as well as musicals are also performed. The venue is the large castle courtyard, which is characterized by good acoustics and can accommodate around 800 guests. The artistic director of the Schlossfestspiele, which has been Karsten Huschke since 2008, will be taken over by Rainer Roos from the 2015 season.

literature

  • Jochen Pressler: Castles and palaces in the Rhine-Neckar triangle. Everything you need to know about 126 castle complexes in North Baden, South Hesse and the Upper Palatinate . 3rd enlarged and improved edition. Schimper, Schwetzingen 1996, ISBN 3-87742-097-4 , pp. 98f.
  • Jochen Goetze (text), Werner Richner (photography): Castles in the Neckar Valley . Braus, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-925835-52-0 , p. 44ff.
  • Rüdiger Lenz: The House of Baden on Zwingenberg - A medieval castle owned by a princely family. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2015, ISBN 978-3-89735-912-3
  • Heinrich Niester: The repair work on Zwingenberg Castle on the Neckar, Rhein-Neckar district. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 2nd year 1973, issue 2, pp. 18-27. ( PDF; 9.2 MB )

Web links

Commons : Burg Zwingenberg (Baden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files