Reign of Waldeck (Hunsrück)
The rule Waldeck was an imperial immediacy territory in today's Rhein-Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate to on a mountain spur in Baybachtal in Vorderhunsrück situated castle Waldeck . It essentially comprised the villages of Dorweiler , Korweiler and Mannebach . The owners were the ministerial family of those von Waldeck, of whom one branch, the Boos von Waldeck family , gained in importance over the centuries and was able to secure the direct imperial rule of Waldeck in the early modern period. Until then, the area was alternately fiefdoms of the Archbishops of Cologne, the Count Palatine of the Rhine , the Archbishops of Trier or the Count of Sponheim . The rule lasted legally until the Peace of Lunéville (1801), but in fact only until the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops in 1794.
The medieval castle itself was burned down and destroyed by French troops in 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession . The hunting lodge, which was built on the leveled remains in the middle of the 18th century, was expropriated by the French state during the so-called French era and auctioned off by the French administration in 1813. The buildings were partially demolished in 1833.
literature
- Alexander Thon / Stefan Ulrich, "Blown by the showers of the past ...". Castles and palaces on the Moselle , Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2007, pp. 154–157. ISBN 978-3-7954-1926-4
- Hammes, Michael: The Waldeck castle ruins in the Hunsrück. In Adventure Archeology. Season 5, year 2003, pp. 12–15. ISSN 1615-7125
- Kurt Hoppstädter, Fritz Langenberg: Waldeck Castle and Palace in the Hunsrück. A historical review. Ottweiler print shop, Ottweiler 1957