Emichsburg (Palatinate)
| Emichsburg | ||
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 Renaissance portal of the Emichsburg |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Ruin, remains integrated in subsequent buildings | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Bockenheim on the Wine Route | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 36 '41.1 " N , 8 ° 10' 59.2" E | |
| Height: | 174 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Emichsburg was a medieval hilltop castle in Rhineland-Palatinate . It was in what is now the local community of Bockenheim on the Weinstrasse in Leiningerland in the Palatinate . There are only a few remains of the castle.
geography
The remains of the castle are at 174 m above sea level. NHN Höhe on the top of the church hill in the center of the northern part of Kleinbockenheim next to the former fortified church of St. Martin.
Castle complex
The tower of Martinskirche, some parts of the building and the curtain wall have been preserved from the castle complex . Some of the remains are integrated in subsequent buildings.
history
The castle, the original name of which has not been passed down, was built near the western edge of the Rhine plain, probably in the 12th century by the counts from the Leininger family . The village of Kleinbockenheim, which has been part of the then formed community of Bockenheim since 1956, was grouped around the castle. In modern times, Kleinbockenheim has only grown slightly to the south and east into the flatter terrain.
The Kleinbockenheim, fortified by the Leiningers, was besieged for ten days by Elector Friedrich the Victorious of the Palatinate for ten days during the Mainz collegiate feud and finally destroyed along with the castle. Count Emich VIII fortified Kleinbockenheim again, but Friedrich burned the place down again in 1471 and again grinded the fortifications. However, this was restored in the same year by Emich VIII. His successor Emich IX. von Leiningen-Hardenburg also rebuilt the castle in 1502 and named it "Emichsburg" for the first time.
Until 1593, Emich XI. investing in a Renaissance - Schloss good care. This was badly damaged several times in the 17th century during the Thirty Years' War and the War of the Palatinate Succession .
In 1730, Count Karl Ludwig von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Emichsburg (1704–1747) had a new residential building built on the castle grounds. The complex served as his main residence and he named his new branch of the family after it. The preserved Renaissance portal apparently still comes from the old building. The castle was renovated between 1752 and 1766. It was finally destroyed when the French Revolutionary Wars permanently invaded the Electoral Palatinate in 1797/98. The Leininger were expropriated by France , and the ruinous Emichsburg in Kleinbockenheim also fell to the French state under Napoleon Bonaparte , who had it auctioned in 1806. After Napoleon's final defeat, the Kingdom of Bavaria took over the former Electoral Palatinate in 1816 . In 1818 the castle property was sold to the pastor and notary Friedrich Weiß from Großbockenheim . Heinrich Janson bought it from his widow on October 17, 1831 . Together with 28 hectares of vineyards and farmland , it cost 40,000 guilders .
In 1906 the former grave of the Counts of Leiningen was discovered by chance during earthworks under St. Martin's Church . However, it turned out to have been looted and was filled in again.
Today there is a winery on the area that bears the name "Schlossgut". It is still owned by Heinrich Janson's descendants.
The Emichsburg in the Odenwald was built in 1828 by Prince Karl zu Leiningen as a hunting lodge and bears its name in memory of the family's former residence in Bockenheim.
Culture
Community center "Emichsburg"
After the earlier castle, the Bockenheimer Bürgerhaus , built towards the end of the 20th century, was also given the name "Emichsburg". It was built between Groß- and Kleinbockenheim, where the house of the German Wine Route has been located since 1995 .
"Prize of the Emichsburg"
The Emichsburg Prize is awarded at the Bockenheim Dialect Days , which are held in Bockenheim every spring . It pays tribute to particular contributions to dialect , dialect literature and regional culture.
Web links
- The Emichsburg on burgenwelt.de (with some errors in count names)
- The history of the Emichsburg
- The Martinskirche belonging to the castle area
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d "Castle" Emichsburg. bockenheim-historie.de, accessed on December 29, 2013 .
- ↑ Historical overview. (No longer available online.) Schlossgut Janson, archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; Retrieved December 29, 2013 .
- ^ Emichsburg Castle - History. burgenwelt.de, accessed on December 29, 2013 .
- ↑ Dialect Days. (No longer available online.) Bockenheim community, archived from the original on March 4, 2014 ; accessed on March 4, 2014 .