Clingenburg

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Clingenburg
Clingenburg, southern entrance side

Clingenburg, southern entrance side

Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Construction: Cuboid, small cuboid
Place: Klingenberg am Main
Geographical location 49 ° 46 '57 "  N , 9 ° 11' 5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '57 "  N , 9 ° 11' 5"  E
Height: 168  m above sea level NHN
Clingenburg (Bavaria)
Clingenburg
Klingenberg and Clingenburg - Extract from the Topographia Hassiae 1655
Open-air stage in front of the north side of the Palas
View of the town with the city palace, church, vineyard and Clingenburg by day ...
... and at dusk

The Clingenburg is the ruin of a Hohenstaufen hill castle of Conradus Colbo from the family of Schenken von Limpurg on the right bank of the Main in the municipality of Klingenberg am Main in the Miltenberg district in Bavaria , Germany .

Geographical location

The extensive ruins of the Clingenburg rise to 168  m above sea level. NHN about 40 meters above the center of the town of Klingenberg on the western edge of the Spessart . A terraced vineyard extends between the city and the Clingenburg , on whose steep slopes the Klingenberg red wine grows. The Franconian red wine hiking trail leads past the castle ruins for about 500 meters up the Main to a lookout tower that was rebuilt in the 1990s .

Surname

The name Clingenburg consists of the Old High German words klinga and burch . They mean blade , a kind of valley, and castle. The explanation for the name results from this castle in the Kerbtal . The first Clingenburg stood there a little below in the Seltenbach Gorge . The castle name went to the place Clingenburg (later Klingenberg).

history

The Limpurg taverns

Conradus Colbo, one of Limpurg's taverns and cupbearer of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossas , built the Clingenburg around 1100 instead of the small old castle in the Clinge below the former early medieval Hainburg . In 1177 this name appears for the first time in a document issued in Venice in which Conradus Colbo describes himself as Conradus prinzerna de Clingenburg . The neighboring castles of Collenburg near Collenberg and the Henneburg near Stadtprozelten also belonged to the influential Limpurg taverns , called pincernae de Clingenberg et de Brodselden . The Klingenberg Reichsschenken also had a castle man on the Collenburg. In the middle of the 13th century there were still three taverns on the Clingenburg: Albert, who later joined the Teutonic Order , Walter, who moved to the Nuremberg-Hersbruck area after his marriage to Elisabeth von Königstein- Reicheneck, and Conrad with his wife Guda. Shortly before his death in Augsburg in 1246, he took part in the wedding of Conrad IV von Hohenstaufen to Elisabeth von Wittelsbach.

The Bickenbachers

Conrad's widow Guda von Clingenburg brought the entire property around Klingenberg into her second marriage to Conrad von Bickenbach from Burg Bickenbach, today Schloss Alsbach on Bergstrasse . In contrast to the taverns loyal to the Pope and anti-Staufer noblemen and minstrels . This marriage established the new generation of the Bickenbachers, from which many influential men and women such as canons, abbesses, a prince abbot and a master of the Teutonic Order emerged in the following 250 years. The Bickenbachers married into many influential families in the Rhine-Main area. For example, the ancestral mother of the Dalberg family was a Bickenbacher, as was the mother of the Archbishop of Mainz , Dietrich von Erbach . Despite extensive relatives, the Bickenbacher family died out with the death of Ronrad VIII. 1486 and Monrad VII. 1497 (different sources). For some of the Bickenbachers, the church of St. Michaelis in Grubingen, which was later abandoned around 1630, was the burial place.

Archbishopric Mainz

After the von Bickenbach family died out, the ore monastery of Mainz initially acquired parts of the uninhabited castle and its surrounding area. Around 1500 the castle, town and rule of Clingenburg were entirely owned by the Mainz residents. The ore monastery appointed the bailiff Johann Leonhard Kottwitz von Aulenbach as administrator, who soon moved into the city ​​palace he had built and abandoned the Clingenburg to decay. The legend that the castle was destroyed by French troops can not be substantiated .

Todays use

Around 1870 offset high profits from urban Tongruben Klingenberg to acquire the location, the remains of the castle including the environment and use it as hard place to leave herrichten, took place on the 1891 irregular Castle games and theater performances. Distinguished guests such as Bavarian kings also appeared at these events.

The tradition of the Castle Festival was briefly revived from 1926 to 1928 when the Andreas Hofer Festival and the Wilhelm Tell Festival were held.

Around 1968 the city had the moat that still existed filled in in order to gain parking space for a planned castle restaurant. The state office for the preservation of monuments surprisingly approved the incorporation of the modern- style restaurant in the ruins of the Clingenburg .

From 1969 to 1979 the castle courtyard was filled with theater life by amateur actors Bickenbach .

Since 1994, theater performances have been taking place at the Clingenburg again. For eight weeks every summer , the Clingenburg Festival brings musicals , operas , plays and concerts to the open-air stage between the high remains of the wall of the former palace . The Castle Festival is accompanied by classical concerts and cabaret in the Klingenberg City Palace.

The historical wine festival takes place on the Clingenburg around May 1st every year .

description

Of the original Hohenstaufen castle, only the archway and the massive foundations of the round keep remain. The restaurant is set between the foundations of the former kitchen and servant building. To the side of its window front, which dominates the valley, extends a wide viewing terrace from which the vineyards slope down towards the city.

Of the previous buildings, the early medieval Hainburg within a Celtic ring wall and the Old Castle , only earth changes, ramparts and an artificially elevated hill can be found.

literature

  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Würzburg . In: Wehrhaftes Franken . tape 2 . Ernst Carl, Nuremberg 2001, p. 67-68 .
  • A. Rahrbach, J. Schöffl, O. Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia . Edelmann, Nuremberg 2002.
  • Karl Gröber: Lower Franconian castles . Dr. B. Filser, Augsburg 1924.
  • Adam Hessler: 296 castles and palaces in Lower Franconia and the adjacent areas of Middle Franconia, Württemberg and Baden - history and description. Edited according to the existing literature . Perschmann, Würzburg 1909.

Web links

Commons : Clingenburg  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 121 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ History portal Bavarian Lower Main, Miltenberg district
  3. ↑ a b c Gudrun Berninger: The taverns on our Clingenburg. City of Klingenberg am Main, April 7, 2004, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
  4. ^ Bickenbach family tree (PDF; 571 kB)
  5. ^ Gudrun Berninger, Grubingen, 1979
  6. ^ Chronicle of the games at the Clingenburg. Archived from the original on February 29, 2008 ; Retrieved December 27, 2012 .
  7. ^ Homepage of the Clingenburg Festival with a schedule