Maienburg
Maienburg | ||
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Ruins of the Maienburg |
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Alternative name (s): | Eigenberg Castle | |
Creation time : | around 1300 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, location | |
Conservation status: | Trenches, ramparts, remains of walls, keep | |
Standing position : | Free nobles | |
Construction: | Basalt quarry stone | |
Place: | Angle | |
Geographical location | 50 ° 33 '20.9 " N , 8 ° 10' 14.5" E | |
Height: | 416 m above sea level NN | |
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The Maienburg , also called Eigenberg Castle , is the ruin of a medieval hilltop castle in the district of Winkels in the market town of Mengerskirchen in the Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg .
location
The ruins of the Maienburg are located northwest of Mengerskirchen-Winkels at 416 m above sea level. NN high basalt cone . The immediate vicinity of the castle is heavily forested.
history
At the beginning of the 14th century, the castle complex, first mentioned in 1331 as "Burg Eigenberg", was built by Count Johann von Nassau-Dillenburg to protect the Calenberg cents and went to Ludwig von Mundersbach as a fief .
After the death of Daniel III. von Mundersbach's family died out in 1600. The castle thus fell back to the House of Nassau-Dillenburg . From 1608 the castle was pledged to Burkhard von Waldmannshausen , was repaired and inhabited until 1612. The heirs of Burkhard von Waldmannshausen ceded the castle to Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar in 1620 , who added it to the Mengerskirchen office. Since then the castle has not been used and fell into disrepair.
The estate belonging to the castle was leased until 1806 and laid down in 1818.
investment
The Maienburg was secured by two walls and ditches . The western part of the curtain wall , the south tower and a keep with a domed vault have been preserved. The Palas and the eastern wall are no longer present.
The castle was built from existing basalt. The keep was 10.40 m in diameter, the wall thickness on the inside was 2.50 m, on the outside 3.90 m. Three roundels were in front of the keep and are connected to the south tower by the 40 m long wall. The wall has four loopholes . The south tower has a diameter of 6 m with a wall thickness of 1.60 m.
The trenches originally ten meters wide and four meters deep can still be seen clearly.
Monument protection
The ruin is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.
literature
- Ferdinand Luthmer : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Wiesbaden. Volume III: The architectural and art monuments of the Lahn area . Walluf 1973, ISBN 3-25302-731-7 .
- Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 426.
- Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall : Handbook of German art monuments - Southern Hesse . Berlin 1950.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): Burgruine Eigenberg In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Entry by JF zu Maienburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on November 1, 2016.
- Maienburg Castle on Burgenwelt.org
- Map of the Maienburg on the private website for Ortschronik Winkels
- 3D view of the Maienburg on the private websites of Ortschronik Winkels
- Reconstruction drawing on burgrestruktion.de