Oberburg (Gondorf)
The upper castle (as opposed to called Lower Castle Castle Liebieg ), and Castle von der Leyen , lock for Leyen , Castle Leyen and Gondorf Castle called, is in the village Gondorf the municipality Gondorf on the Mosel . It is the ancestral seat of the lords and later princes von der Leyen . In 2002, before the bailey one of Karol Badyna created bronze bust of the princes Philipp von der Leyen revealed that the volunteer fire department had donated Gondorf.
According to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG), the castle is a protected cultural monument and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . A branch of the Koblenz State Main Archive is housed in some buildings .
The sheltered location, as if on a headland on one side by the Moselle and on the back by the Nothbach (diverted and built over in the 1970s), probably offered as early as the 5th / 6th. Century the place for a fortified and well defensible settlement.
The extensive complex from the 14th century consists of the outer bailey with a gate added in 1527 and the core bailey . The main builder was the Trier Elector Johann VI around 1560 . von der Leyen . The facility fell into disrepair in the following times, when the various branches of the family took up residence in Bliesgau , Bavaria and southwest Germany.
Early 19th century was the now the prince of Baden since 1819 Hohengeroldseck raised Reichsgraf his ancestors Philipp von der Leyen Castle in parts restored . After the prince's death, his son Erwein I sold the complex, lands and the previously important winery to the community of Gondorf, among others.
During the expansion of the railway (today's Moselle route ) in 1876, the palace complex, which extends to the banks of the Moselle, was cut into two parts and the church, which stood southwest of the palace, was demolished. A replacement building was built elsewhere at the expense of the developer, the Prussian State Railway . Almost 100 years later, in 1971, the federal highway 416 was laid between the railway line and the Moselle . To do this, the ground floor parts of the castle had to be opened or rebuilt. The main road now runs through the middle of the castle over the former courtyard.
literature
- Otto von Czarnowsky: The Moselle and its immediate surroundings from Metz to Coblenz . J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1841, pp. 241-242 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , pp. 319-320.
- Hans Spiegel: Poor architectural monuments! In: Castles and Palaces . Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation . Volume 16, No. 2, 1975, ISSN 0007-6201 , here p. 67, doi: 10.11588 / bus.1975.2.40364 .
- Steel: restoration of the former Princely von der Leyenschen Castle in Gondorf ad Mosel. In: The preservation of monuments. Volume 10, No. 14, November 4, 1908, pp. 109–113.
Web links
- Entry by Jens Friedhoff about the Oberburg Gondorf in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Mayen-Koblenz district. Mainz 2020, p. 38 (PDF; 5.8 MB).
- ↑ Heinz Cüppers (Ed.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0308-3 , pp. 112, 418.
- ^ O. von Czarnowsky: The Moselle and its immediate surroundings from Metz to Coblenz , 1841, p. 242.
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 28.7 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 34.5 ″ E