Hohenburg castle ruins (Homburg)
Hohenburg castle ruins | |
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Ruins of the Hohenburg fortress |
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Alternative name (s): | Homburg, Hohenburg Fortress |
Creation time : | around 1200 |
Castle type : | Hilltop castle |
Conservation status: | Wall parts, wall, ditch |
Standing position : | Count |
Place: | Homburg |
Geographical location | 49 ° 19 '15.5 " N , 7 ° 20' 41.4" E |
Height: | 324.6 m above sea level NHN |
The Hohenburg castle ruins , also known as Homburg Castle or Hohenburg Fortress , are located in Homburg in the Saar-Palatinate district in Saarland . It stands at 324.6 m above sea level. NHN high Schlossberg above the Schlossberg caves .
In the 12th century, the hilltop castle was the seat of the Counts of Homburg. In 1330 they received city rights from Ludwig the Bavarian for their town at the foot of the Schlossberg. After the death of the last Count of Homburg in 1449, the castle and town fell to the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken . They rebuilt the castle in the second half of the 16th century into a renaissance castle and then from a fortress .
During the Reunion , King Louis XIV had the fortress builder Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban expand the fortress and fortify the city. The basic structure of Homburg's old town dates from this time. The fortifications were first razed in 1697 and finally in 1714 and served as a quarry for the construction of Karlsberg Castle . From 1981 the facility was exposed and partially restored.
literature
- Joachim Conrad, Stefan Flesch: Castles and palaces on the Saar . Saarbrücken 1988.
- Klaus Kell, Alexander Thon: Homburg . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Burgenlexikon. Vol. 2. F – H (= contributions to the history of the Palatinate ). tape 12.2 , 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , ISSN 0936-7640 , p. 423-437 .
- Eckhart Sander: The most beautiful palaces and castles in Saarland . Gudensberg 1999.
Web links
- Entry on Hohenburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Schlossberghöhlen and Hohenburg ruins ( Memento from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Article on the Saarpfalz-Touristik website , accessed on December 4, 2011
- Pictures of Hohenburg Fortress on Historische-Orte.de