Michelsburg (Palatinate)

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Michelsburg
Michelsburg in 1983

Michelsburg in 1983

Alternative name (s): St. Michaelsburg, Remigiusburg
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Count
Construction: Cuboid, sandstone
Place: Haschbach am Remigiusberg
Geographical location 49 ° 31 '21 "  N , 7 ° 26' 26.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '21 "  N , 7 ° 26' 26.4"  E
Height: 368  m above sea level NN
Michelsburg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Michelsburg

The Michelsburg , also called St. Michaelsburg or Remigiusburg , is the ruin of a hilltop castle in "Remigiusland" at 368  m above sea level. NN high summit of Remigiusberg high above the local community Haschbach am Remigiusberg in the district of Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

It is believed that the summit castle on Remigiusberg was built before 1100. The first record is a document of the Mainz Archbishop Adalbert I of 8 October 1127. Monks have robber barons , the castle bought and torn down and in its place a Benedictine Provost built.

In 1260 Count Heinrich von Zweibrücken rebuilt the castle as a wooden castle and later rebuilt it in stone, expanded it and built a chapel inside (consecrated to St. Michael). Until 1444 it served as the residence of various members of the 2nd Veldenz count line and, after their extinction, was a fiefdom of the Knight Blick von Lichtenberg until 1524 . From 1524 Count Ruprecht von Veldenz is the owner of the castle and from November 18, 1543 it becomes ancestral castle of the Counts Pfalz-Veldenz through the Marburg Treaty . The castle serves as a secondary residence and a princely crypt was set up in the neighboring provost church of St. Remigius .

The castle was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War , considerably destroyed in the War of the Palatinate Succession and finally destroyed by the French Revolution , it was still habitable.

In 1886 the castle became the property of the Catholic Church Foundation Remigiusberg and was restored from 1972 to 1974.

investment

Remnants of the foreworks with tower, parts of the upstream neck ditch , a sandstone- walled fountain 8 m deep and 2.20 m in diameter and parts of an archway are still preserved from the former castle complex. The remains of an imposing curtain wall are particularly interesting .

literature

  • Wolfgang Medding: Castles and palaces in the Palatinate and on the Saar . Frankfurt am Main 1981
  • Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Part 3. I - N. 1. Edition. Kaiserslautern 2005, ISBN 3-927754-51-X

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