Palatinate Trebur

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The Palatinate Trebur (also Tribur ) was a medieval royal palace in Trebur in the Groß-Gerau district in Hesse . The complex is presumed to be in the area of ​​the Laurentiuskirche , in which remains of Carolingian building fabric are still present.

history

Trebur is mentioned for the first time in 829 in a document from Ludwig the Pious . Presumably there was already a larger Carolingian farm here, from which the later Reichsforst Dreieich was administered.

Under Ludwig the German , Trebur became one of the most visited royal palaces in the Rhine-Main area . Several important diets took place here, the first in 871. Charlemagne abdicated in 887 in Trebur, his successor Arnulf of Carinthia held an important church assembly in the Palatinate in 895.

In Ottonian times , the royal stays in the Palatinate Trebur decreased. Otto the Great transferred the Palatinate with other goods to his second wife Adelheid as Wittum . Otto III. gave the curtis Tribur 985 to his aunt, Abbess Mathilde von Quedlinburg . The Palatinate is likely to have reverted to the Empire after their death.

Visits increased again among the Salians . In 1053 Heinrich IV was elected heir to the throne in Trebur . In 1076 the prince's day in Trebur took place, at which an attempt was made to settle the investiture dispute . After that, the regular visits stop.

1119 was the last time a diet was set up in Tribur, but it was moved. The Palatinate remained in the possession of the empire until the end of the Staufer period . The counter-king Wilhelm of Holland pledged the Palatinate to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen in 1249 , and Trebur later became their property. After their extinction, the place came to the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1479 , and to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1567 .

Today's Laurentiuskirche seen from the Schwarzbach.

investment

The remains of the facility are located on a flat hill on the southern outskirts near the former rivers, today the Landgraben or its confluence with the Schwarzbach .

In the time of Ludwig the German, the complex around today's baroque parish church of St. Laurentius was probably equipped with a representative palatium and a larger church ( basilica ). A major reconstruction probably took place in Ottonian times.

The buildings fell into disrepair since the 12th century. Stones from the Palatinate are said to have been reused in the construction of Landskron Castle near Oppenheim on the opposite side of the Rhine .

literature

  • Tilman Struve : Tribur (Hessen, Germany) . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 984 f.
  • 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. 516.
  • Thomas Maurer: High Middle Ages: The Palatinate Trebur. In: Britta Ramminger , Alexander Heising , Thomas Maurer: The Trebur area in prehistory, Roman times and the Middle Ages. Burials from the Middle Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages - military camps and civil settlement in Roman times - the royal palace. Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-89822-705-6 ( Topics of Hessen Archeology 5), pp. 21–24.
  • Tobias Picard: Royal Palaces in the Rhine-Main area: Ingelheim - Frankfurt - Trebur - Gelnhausen - Seligenstadt. In: Heribert Müller (Ed.): "... Your Citizens Freedom" - Frankfurt am Main in the Middle Ages. Contributions to the memory of the Frankfurt media artist Elsbet Orth . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 9783782905442 , pp. 19-73.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regesta Imperii I², No. 872.
  2. ↑ Theodor Sickel (Ed.): Diplomata 13: The documents Otto II and Otto III. (Ottonis II. Et Ottonis III. Diplomata). Hanover 1893, DO III.8.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 22.7 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 41.6"  E