Mildenburg

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Mildenburg
Aerial photo 2008

Aerial photo 2008

Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Mostly preserved
Standing position : Clerical
Construction: Buckled and quarry stone masonry
Place: Miltenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 41 '54.9 "  N , 9 ° 15' 2.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '54.9 "  N , 9 ° 15' 2.7"  E
Height: 175  m above sea level NHN
Mildenburg (Bavaria)
Mildenburg

The Mildenburg is a hilltop castle built around 1200 above the district town of Miltenberg in the Lower Franconian district of Miltenberg in Bavaria .

Surname

The name Mildenburg, originally Mildenberg or Miltenberg, consists of the Middle High German words milte in the sense of kind or generous and bërc for mountain or castle. They should characterize the characteristics of the castle and its masters. The castle name passed to the place Miltenberg.

Sometimes a Latin part of the name was used: Piemontanus (benevolent mountain).

history

The castle was built towards the end of the 12th century by the Archbishop of Mainz as an eastern border guard for his sphere of influence on the Schloßberg , a northern projection of the Greinberg , and was first mentioned in 1226. Consisting hump blocks built, 27-meter high castle keep is the oldest part of the castle complex. It is located at the most endangered point, the rising slope to the south. The current residential building with a high roof and stepped gable was founded from 1390 to 1396 by Archbishop Konrad von Weinsberg . The castle, conquered in the Peasants' War in 1525 , was destroyed in the Second Margrave War in 1552 and taken again.

The castle was expanded several times and partly rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Margrave War by Archbishop Daniel Brendel von Homburg (1555–1582).

The castle served as the seat of the archbishop's burgraves until the 18th century .

Mildenburg 1847

In 1803 the castle fell to the Prince of Leiningen . From 1807 to 1979 it was privately owned. Owners included Friedrich Gustav Habel (1858–1867) and Wilhelm Conrady (1867–1903), in 1908 it came into the possession of the von Normann-Loshausen family through purchase . The layout of the castle courtyard in the style of the castle romanticism of the 19th century as well as extensive renovation and modernization of the interior followed. 1943–1979 the castle was owned by the Normann-Loshausen heirs, the Bock von Wülfingen family , then the city of Miltenberg acquired the building complex.

The castle was reopened in July 2011 and now houses a museum dedicated to icons and modern art.

  • View of the castle from the old town

  • Palas and Kemenate

  • Inside the keep

  • View from the keep over the castle to the city

  • Floor plan of the castle from 1917

Miltenberg Castle Museum

Since July 2011, the renovated Mildenburg has housed the Museum Burg Miltenberg as part of the Miltenberg museums . The exhibition consists of around 170 works of art from the 20th and 21st centuries (Jürgen Lenssen Collection) as well as Russian and Greek icons from the 16th to 19th centuries (Diocese Würzburg Collection) and over 180 Romanian reverse glass icons (Joachim and Marianne Nentwig Collection).

Personalities

literature

  • Alexander Antonow: Castles in the Main Square. Breuberg, Freudenberg, Miltenberg, Prozelten, Rothenfels, Wertheim, Wildenberg . Antonow, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-924086-30-3 , pp. 57-67 ( handbook series historical buildings 1 ).
  • Walter Hotz : Castles of the Hohenstaufen period in the Odenwald area. In: Winfried Wackerfuß (Ed.): Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes II. Festschrift for Hans H. Weber. Breuberg-Bund , Breuberg-Neustadt 1977, pp. 155-168, especially pp. 162 f.

Web links

Commons : Mildenburg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 148 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  3. ↑ www.miltenberg.info/article/museum-burg-miltenberg-und-mildenburg/
  4. ^ Museums of the city of Miltenberg: The Mildenburg