Niederburg Kobern
| Niederburg Kobern | ||
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 Niederburg from the other bank of the Moselle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Niedernburg, Unterburg, New Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Keep, enclosing walls | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, clericals | |
| Place: | Kobern-Gondorf | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 18 '38.3 " N , 7 ° 27' 20.4" E | |
| Height: | 150 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Niederburg Kobern , also known as Niedernburg, Unterburg, Neue Burg , is a hilltop castle above the municipality of Kobern-Gondorf in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The ruins of the Niederburg rises at a height of about 150 m on a ridge above the village of Kobern, which extends towards the Moselle. On the same ridge, about 50 m higher, is the Oberburg Kobern with Matthias Chapel .
Building description
The castle has an almond-shaped floor plan. In addition to the three-storey 20 meters high keep a high input height of 10 meters over an area of 7.5 x 8 meter radicals projecting a two-storey late Gothic Palas on. A wall tower and a cistern are well preserved. Otherwise there are essentially parts of the outer walls. The castle was protected to the west by a curtain wall with a kennel and to the north by a ditch . The upper third of the keep and the battlements were reconstructed in the 19th century. The state palace administration reconstructed and supplemented the palace and the cistern between the tower and the palace between 1976 and 1978.
history
The castle was built in the middle of the 12th century. It was first mentioned in 1195, when the then lord of the castle gave it to the Archbishop of Trier as a fief. The lords of Isenburg-Kobern died out in the 13th century in the female line. Via the heir Cecilia, the castles in Kobern came to power with Frederick II of Neuerburg (a sideline of the Counts of Vianden ). In 1309 this line also died out in the male line. Then the castle and the rule were sold to the Archbishop of Trier. In 1688 the castle was destroyed.
sightseeing
The castle complex is accessible all year round and can be visited free of charge. The keep could be entered by carefully climbing over a narrow wall breakthrough, but the interior is not worth the laborious climb.
The ascent to the castle takes place over a narrow footpath from the Mühlbachtal.
Monument protection
The Niederburg Kobern is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is in Kobern .
literature
- Local community Kobern-Gondorf (Ed.): Kobern-Gondorf. 1980.
- Magnus Backes: State castles, palaces and antiquities in Rhineland-Palatinate (= State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Rhineland-Palatinate Dept. Castles, Palaces, Antiquities [Hrsg.]: Edition Schlösser, Antiquities Rheinland-Pfalz . Guide booklet 7). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-1566-7 (new edition).
- The Middle Rhine Basin (= values of the German homeland . Volume 65). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-10102-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Mayen-Koblenz district. Mainz 2020, p. 39 (PDF; 5.8 MB).