Mosburg (Biebrich)

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Mosburg
The Mosburg in 2014

The Mosburg in 2014

Alternative name (s): Moosburg, Biburc, Biburk
Creation time : Königspfalz after 874, moated castle 13th century, artificial ruin approx. 1805
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Wiesbaden-Biebrich
Geographical location 50 ° 2 '45 "  N , 8 ° 14' 14"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '45 "  N , 8 ° 14' 14"  E
Height: 100  m
Mosburg (Hesse)
Mosburg

The Mosburg (formerly also Moosburg ) is an artificial ruin on the edge of the Mosburg pond, which is fed by the Mosbach , in the Biebrich Castle Park in Wiesbaden . It builds on the ruins of the old royal palace Biburc .

history

It is very likely that the former royal palace was initiated by the East Franconian Roman-German King Ludwig the German and existed until the beginning of the 11th century . Based on this, a moated castle is said to have existed in the 13th century . In the year 1462 a Count's Nassau castle house with moat and castle wall outside the village is mentioned in the Mosbach court book. From 1654 the castle was owned by the Swedish envoy Penz von Penzenau .

At the beginning of the 19th century, Duke Friedrich August von Nassau enlarged the Biebrich Palace Park and acquired the remains of the buildings that belong to the Imperial Palace of Biburc (also Biburk ). He commissioned Carl Florian Goetz to build a neo-Gothic residential castle on the rubble. The artificial ruin was completed between 1805 and 1806. Demolition material from the Liebfrauenkirche in Mainz was used for this. In the beginning of the 19th century, the castle was supposed to embody the romantic notion of the Middle Ages. The apparent ruin, which contrasts with the baroque Biebrich Castle , was used by the Nassau dukes as a place of retreat.

After completion, several epitaphs from the 1803 secularized monastery Eberbach were brought to the castle for decoration. These included the grave slabs of Johann II and Johann IV von Katzenelnbogen . They were transferred back to the monastery in 1936. The grave slab of Diether V. von Katzenelnbogen , which was also in the Mosburg at the same time, is now in the Wiesbaden Museum (collection of Nassau antiquities).

In the middle of the 19th century, the sculptor Emil Alexander Hopfgarten set up his studio in Mosburg (see also: Wiesbaden painters and sculptors in the 19th century ). After his death in 1856, his models and works were exhibited in the castle hall for 18 years.

From 1909 to 1945 the castle housed the Biebrich local history museum (in the so-called knight's hall) . The approval and a large part of the first equipment was given by Wilhelm IV of Nassau-Weilburg .

During the Second World War , the artificial one turned into an actual ruin. In 1979, the castle was a voluntary basis by the Biebrich home friends cleaned and the vegetation removed, which had damaged the masonry. Due to the poor state of construction, the Mosburg is no longer accessible to the public.

restoration

Renovation work in 2011

In 2005, the Wiesbaden Architects and Engineers Association (AIV) coordinated a student competition on the future of Mosburg. The new construction of the Brandweiher and its connection with the Mosburgweiher was awarded, but the implementation is questionable. The renovation of the Mosburg is coordinated by the Hessian real estate management . The restoration of the access bridge and the large tower with cabinet and belvedere was completed. The third of five construction phases has been implemented since summer 2010. The historic Zischelbrücke has already been restored in accordance with the requirements of a listed building; in the future the Mosburgweiher is to be enlarged again up to the Zischel (small waterfall).

Mosburg Festival

Since 1979, the Biebrich clubs and associations have organized the Mosburg Festival every year. This was originally intended to “bring the long-forgotten and neglected Mosburg back into the public interest”. Today this is used to finance the restoration work. Commercial service providers are excluded from the festival.

See also

  • Lithograph by Eugène Cicéri around 1850

  • Engraving around 1880 with the main church

  • Postcard around 1900

literature

  • 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. 507.
  • Otto Fink: The Mosburg in the Biebrich Castle Park . In: Burgen und Schlösser , 1968, issue 11
  • Gg. Kraus: The Mosburg in the castle park in Biebrich . In: Nassovia 21, 1920, and: Alt Nassau , 1912 No. 9
  • Emil Hädler: The Mosburg in the Biebrich Castle Park: Building research and studies on compatibility with use . In: Frog King and Sleeping Beauty . Bad Homburg 1998, pp. 162-166

Web links

Commons : Mosburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name was probably only adopted in the Middle Ages by Dudo von Biburk , the Mainz city ​​architect, cf. The Rhine and the Rhineland depicted in picturesque original views . Ludwig Lange, Darmstadt 1855, p. 73
  2. ^ Mosburg (Biebrich) . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894-1896, Volume 2, pp. 979-979.
    The Rhine and the Rhineland depicted in picturesque original views , Ludwig Lange, Darmstadt 1855, p. 73
  3. ↑ www.sehenswertes-biebrich.de Biebrich Castle Park
  4. ↑ a b Fig. 251: The Mosburg 1936 and Fig. 250: The Mosburg around 1930 at www.wiesbaden-fotos.de , accessed on August 9, 2011 / February 3, 2016
  5. ↑ Plaque on the building
  6. ↑ a b Attractions in Biebrich: The Biebrich Castle Park , accessed on August 9, 2011
  7. ^ The inscriptions of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Volume 43, Yvonne Monsees, Reichert, 1997, pp. 31, 83, 164
  8. ↑ cf. on this DI 2 (Mainz) No. 673 and Demandt, Regesten 1 No. 207, see also: Eberhard J. Nikitsch: DI 60, No. 114 † . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di060mz08k0011402 ( inschriften.net ).
  9. ^ Sculptor Emil Alexander Hopfgarten . State capital Wiesbaden, accessed on August 9, 2011
  10. ^ Elisabeth Böker : Rhine Romanticism for the Jubilee. Frankfurter Rundschau , August 5, 2009, accessed on July 10, 2011 (German).
  11. ↑ Janina Stadel: The Mosburg could soon be on an island. In: merkurist.de. June 24, 2018, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  12. ^ Hessian real estate management: repair of the Mosburg. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012 ; accessed on July 10, 2011 (German).
  13. ^ AG Biebricher Vereine: Das Mosburgfest ( memento of October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 5, 2011