Neuerburg (Wied)
| Neuerburg | ||
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_016-.jpg) The Neuerburg |
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| Creation time : | around 1170 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Niederbreitbach | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 32 '16.9 " N , 7 ° 26' 14.1" E | |
| Height: | 250 m above sea level NN | |
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The Neuerburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle near the municipality of Niederbreitbach in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The castle ruins are located about 2.5 km northeast of Niederbreitbach at about 250 m above sea level. NN on a steep cliff on the left bank above the Fockenbach . The castle truce included the places Hegerhof, Kelterhof, Kurtenacker, Ackerhof, Wüscheid and the western part of Kurtscheid . The castle is not accessible to hikers and those interested.
history
Ludwig II of Thuringia had the Neuerburg built around 1170 (1160 to 1180). It is a kind of prototype of a Staufer castle.
In 1218 a noble family ( ministerials ) named after her countess Mechthild von Sayn , who after the death of her husband Heinrich III. von Sayn († 1246/1247) visited the castle occasionally. In 1250 she handed the castle over to the Archbishopric of Cologne . The castle itself was located in the Hunschaft Breitscheid. Two houses were included, which were intended for a forester, keeper and administrative officer. Most of the time, you will come across six keepers from Kelterhof, Kurtenacker, Ackerhof, Hegerhof and Wolfenacker.
Since 1290 an office of the same name was named after Neuerburg, which was often pledged (e.g. to the Isenburg-Grenzau and von der Leyen families ). The administrative area of the Neuerburg office was consistently identical to that of the later Verbandsgemeinde Waldbreitbach , with the municipalities of Kurtscheid and Datzeroth occupying a special historical position. The administrative seat (Huhns-Mühle) was Niederbreitbach until modern times.
The castle began to fall into disrepair in the 17th century.
Before 1850, the remaining buildings were finally laid down by the princes of Wied , the owners of the ruins at that time and still today.
During the advance of the American troops in 1945, they took fire at the ruin and the castle grounds received around 60 shell hits. The partially preserved battlements in the main castle were destroyed. A third of the shells hit the keep and its top of the wall. The east and south walls of the castle were razed to the ground. Reconstruction began in 1946, with the plan to make the keep habitable again.
Todays use
Only the pentagonal keep (a prototype of castle architecture at the time) with three preserved storeys, the circular wall (wall technology from the late 12th century) and the outer bailey (around 1300) remained.
Today the castle is still owned by the Neuwied prince dynasty , but leased by a private person from Niederbreitbach who is now in the second generation of the family and sees it as a life's work to renovate the castle and protect it from further deterioration.
The castle is not accessible to hikers and those interested, an outside tour is possible.
A reconstruction model can be viewed in the Niederbreitbach village museum .
Legends and stories
There are many stories and legends about the Neuerburg and the Fockenbachtal , which are about a monastery, a glassworks, the devil and a fabulous treasure. Life, love and death on and around the Neuerburg are also described in these (see references).
Locations in the truce of the Neuerburg
Kelterhof - pressing of wine, suggests viticulture and its processing. In the vicinity of the memorial chapel, on Eppsteg, there are remains of the walls of the terraces on which the vines grew. Further evidence of viticulture in the Wiedtal can be found in the Farmersau , between Niederbreitbach and Bürder.
Hegerhof - cherish and hunt - here were the huts of the Neuerburg hunters, who tended the forest and the forest animals around the Neuerburg.
Legends and stories entwine around the glassworks in the Fockenbachtal , near which an airplane (World War II) crashed. You can't see anything of the glassworks today. Nearby tunnels are evidence of the extraction of natural resources.
A poem by the Wiedische Princess Elisabeth
Also known by her author's name Carmen Sylva , 1843–1916 :
The Neuerburg
There is a singing through the beeches,
A ringing through the murmuring Wiedbach,
That is the echo of the songs,
By Heinrich von Ofterdingen.
Here he sat in the forest,
forgetting the world and people,
and
measured his immortal throat with the forest's singers.
I want to rummage through the walls,
wash down the deep roots,
and ask every pebble for
its secret feelings.
literature
- Niederbreitbach. A journey through pictures into the past . ISBN 3-89570-951-4
- Albert Hardt: In the land of Neuerburg an der Wied , 2nd improved and expanded edition, Neuwied 1988.
- Josef Hoffmann: Land on the Wied , Breitscheid 1929.
- Th. Jung: Castles in the Neuwied district, Neuerburg Castle, home calendar of the Neuwied district, 1968, pp. 81–87.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Th. Jung: Burg Neuerburg, home calendar of the district of Neuwied, 1968, p. 81