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| Alternative name (s): | New Bamberg, Neubamberg | |
| Creation time : | around 1253 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Enclosing walls | |
| Standing position : | Counts, clericals | |
| Place: | New Bamberg | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 47 '52 " N , 7 ° 55' 30" E | |
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The castle New Baumburg , including Neu-Bamberg, Neu-Bamberg called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle above the town of Neu-Bamberg in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate .
The castle was built around 1253 by the Raugrafen , mentioned in 1253 as "Novum castrum apud Sarlesheim" and in 1283 was owned by Raugrafen Heinrich II. Von Neuenbaumburg, son of Raugraf Heinrich I.
On April 12, 1338 half of the castle and the village was given to Archbishop Heinrich III by the Raugrafen for 1,300 pounds of Heller . pledged by Mainz and on March 11, 1419, Archbishop Johann II of Mainz and Count Johann V of Sponheim-Starkenburg share the inner castle. In 1668 the castle was destroyed by the Elector Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz .
After 1970, extensive restorations with partial masonry of the ruins took place.
The castle complex consists of an irregularly rectangular core castle in the northwest and the lower bailey on the western side. To the east of the nuclear facility is the Catholic Church of St. Dionysius, which partly goes back to the medieval castle chapel .
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True report like Chur-Pfalzische Durchl. In his own person next to Dero Chur Printzen Saturday the 14/4 July 1668. the Chur Maintzischen Flecken and Schloss Newen Baimberg… completely ruin… and the cellar Christoph Schiffman [n]… to Altzey in the deep tower let throw… . In: Martin Meyer: Diarium europaeum , Vol. XVI (= XVII). Wilhelm Serlin, Frankfurt am Main 1668 ( Google Books )
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Burgenlexikon III IN , Kaiserslautern 2005
Web links
- Entry about Neu Baumburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute