Dalberg castle ruins

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Dalberg castle ruins
Dalberg castle ruins - view from the southwest

Dalberg castle ruins - view from the southwest

Alternative name (s): Dalburg
Creation time : around 1150
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Enclosing walls
Place: Dalberg
Geographical location 49 ° 53 '45 "  N , 7 ° 43' 47"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '45 "  N , 7 ° 43' 47"  E
Dalberg castle ruins (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Dalberg castle ruins
Dalberg Castle in the 16th century

Dalberg Castle , also called Dalburg , is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the valley of the Graefenbach , which flows into the Nahe via the Ellerbach near Bad Kreuznach , it rises above the local community Dalberg in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

Early days

The area of ​​the later castle and dominion Dalberg was originally Salian . In the 12th century it belonged to the Speyer Monastery and the Bishop of Speyer had given it as a fief to the Weyerbach family , who also referred to themselves as "Lords of Dalberg". The villages Dalberg , the neighboring Wallhausen , Spabrücken and Sommerloch belonged to this fiefdom . Godebold von Weyersbach († 1185) had the castle built in an exposed location between 1150 and 1170.

expansion

In the 14th century, Johann III. Chamberlain of Worms , who married into the family of the Lords of Dalberg through his first wife, Juliane, held 5% of the castle and half of the Dalberg estate. The family of the first Dalbergers died out in the 14th century. Johann XI. During this time, Kämmerer von Worms took possession of the entire castle and lordship and from then on added the addition "zu Dalberg" to his family name Kämmerer von Worms . His grandson, Wolfgang III. , and his descendants led - for the first time in 1375 - the name form Kämmerer von Worms, called von Dalberg , which in the following time slipped into von Dalberg . In 1390 or 1400 the family had acquired sole ownership of the castle and dominion.

In 1367 Dieter II. († 1371) concluded an agreement with Count Palatine Ruprecht II that opened Dalberg Castle to the Count Palatine and in return obliged him to assist Dieter II in the event of feuds , a step in the process of ever closer ties to the house Dalberg to the Electoral Palatinate . Dieter II. And Dieter III. († 1398) expanded the facility, built Dieterbau and Dieterturm. Further construction work took place around 1439 and by Dieter VI. from Dalberg 1490 to 1500.

Task as a residence

After advances in weapons technology, the exposed location was no longer an advantage, and the valley location also offered greater living comfort. That is why the family built Wallhausen Castle in the valley, in Wallhausen , around 1560/1565 , which is still owned by the heirs of the Dalberg family, a line of the Salm-Salm family . The castle still served as a military facility. In 1678 orders for their defense were issued because of a threatened French invasion. In 1750, Hugo Philipp Eckenbert von Dalberg-Wallhausen had dilapidated buildings torn down at the castle and used the material to expand Wallhausen Castle. In 1787 the last wooden parts, stairs, doors and windows were removed. The castle chapel is said to have been used for services until 1790. The former castle continued to deteriorate and was used as a quarry in the 19th century.

investment

The 60 by 45-foot rectangular castle had a four-storey ten by ten-foot residential tower , two round towers in the east, a Dietherbau with Dietherturm, a 12-meter high castle keep with a diameter of eight meters and a wall thickness of two meters, and a former "Antoniuskapelle" with corner tower. The complex was protected by a curtain wall and a ditch . Considerable remains of the surrounding walls can still be seen today. Remnants of the original plaster are partially preserved.

literature

  • Eric Beres: The treasurers of Worms and their importance for the region around Wallhausen and Dalberg . In: Kurt Andermann (Hrsg.): Ritteradel in the Old Kingdom. Die Kämmerer von Worms called von Dalberg = work of the Hessian Historical Commission NF Bd. 31. Hessische Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2009. ISBN 978-3-88443-054-5 , pp. 137–154.
  • Johannes Bollinger: 100 families of the chamberlain from Worms and the lords of Dalberg . Bollinger, Worms-Herrnsheim 1989. Without ISBN.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , p. 192.
  • Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner: Castles and palaces in the Hunsrück, Nahe and Moselle regions . Aloys Henn Verlag, Kastellaun 1976, ISBN 3-450-19912-9 .
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states . New series, vol. 9: Families from the Middle and Upper Rhine and from Burgundy . Marburg 1986. Without ISBN, plate 55.
  • Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich, Achim Wendt: "... where a mighty tower stubbornly looks down" - castles in the Hunsrück and on the Nahe . 1st edition. Schnell und Steiner Verlag, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2493-0 , pp. 16-19.
  • Stefan Ulrich / Alexander Thon / Günther Stanzl: ... sin Huss zu Dalberg near the capellen ... - new knowledge about the architectural history of Dalburg. In: European Castle Institute (ed.): Castles and Palaces . Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation 1/2013, pp. 18–30.

Web links

Commons : Burg Dalberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ The ordinal numbers according to Bollinger, pp. 10–13.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , pp. 137f.
  2. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 139.
  3. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 138.
  4. ↑ Beres: Die Kämmerer , p. 139; Kurt Andermann : The rise of the chamberlain of Worms in the late Middle Ages . In: Kurt Andermann (Hrsg.): Ritteradel in the Old Kingdom. Die Kämmerer von Worms called von Dalberg = work of the Hessian Historical Commission, NF Bd. 31. Darmstadt 2009. ISBN 978-3-88443-054-5 , p. 21.
  5. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 137.
  6. ↑ Schwennicke, Pl. 55–60.
  7. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 137.
  8. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 139.
  9. ↑ Beres: Die Kammerer , pp. 140f.
  10. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 140.
  11. ↑ Bollinger, p. 38.
  12. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 144.
  13. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 147.
  14. ↑ Beres: The Chamberlain , p. 152.
  15. ↑ Bollinger, p. 38.