Langwiesen farm
| Langwiesen farm | ||
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 small castle building Hof Langwiesen after Ferdinand Luthmer (before 1910) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Langwiesen estate | |
| Creation time : | around 1444 | |
| Castle type : | Moated castle | |
| Conservation status: | in need of restoration | |
| Standing position : | Gentry | |
| Construction: | Stone construction | |
| Place: | between the places Boden and Ruppach-Goldhausen , northeast of Montabaur | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 28 '23.5 " N , 7 ° 52' 21.2" E | |
| Height: | 284 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Langwiesen farm , also known as Hofgut Langwiesen , is a small castle building in the Westerwaldkreis between the towns of Boden and Ruppach-Goldhausen , northeast of Montabaur . Politically, the Langwiesen farm belongs to the local community of Meudt .
The area around the building reveals that the main building was a moated castle . Thick round towers flank the four corners of the rectangular house, in front of the northern long side of which there is a stair tower (related to 1608). The barn (dated 1750) and stables are somewhat more recent. A stone figure of St. Aloysius from the 18th century looks out over the courtyard from a niche in the barn wall .
The village "Langewiese" was already known in 1444. Like many villages in the Westerwald , however, it shrank more and more until only the core, an agricultural estate, was left. Two mills still belong to the estate today, one of which was only demolished in this century due to its dilapidation. There was also a chapel and a priest on the estate.
In the middle of the 16th century the farm was married to the von Irmtraut family , who a little later built a moated castle with four corner towers. Contrary to what the name “moated castle” suggests, the broad moat had a defensive function, the moated castle was a protective castle .
1647 the house Langwiesen to a "was waiter " (administrator) sold by the name Pergener from Montabaur and 1680 were sold eventually, the entire Good for 6000 Reichstaler to Eremund Baron von Esch, who by Emperor in 1679 Leopold I in the realm baron had been raised and 1684 became commander of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress .
Carl Wilderich Graf von Walderdorff , who later became Minister of State of the Duchy of Nassau and great-great-grandfather of today's Count, bought the entire Langwiesen estate with the moated castle in 1830. He had the moat drained and the farm buildings of the estate expanded and rebuilt. A clay deposit up to 100 m thick was found here on over 250 hectares, which led to the founding of the Walderdorff clay pits.
Today the castle and farm buildings are no longer owned by Walderdorff. The moated castle is in need of restoration.
literature
- Jens Friedhoff : Langwiesen Castle near Montabaur. History, structure and use of an early modern aristocratic residence . In: Nassauische Annalen 119 (2008), pp. 147–187.
- Hermann-Josef Roth: The Westerwald . Cologne, DuMont, 1981.
- Magnus Backes among others: Art walks in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Stuttgart, Belser, 1971
