Prümerburg
| Prümerburg | ||
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 Prümerburg front view - on the left the keep, on the right the remains of the Palas building |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Prümzurlay | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 52 '6.5 " N , 6 ° 26' 36" E | |
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The Prümerburg is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a 30 meter high Lias sandstone rock at the upper edge of the Prüm river valley near the municipality of Prümzurlay in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The Prümerburg, a fiefdom of the counts and later dukes of Luxembourg , is mentioned for the first time in 1337, but was probably built in the 12th century. Prehistoric ramparts existed in the immediate vicinity much earlier. The remains of the pentagonal keep are special features. The Prümerburg is said to have burned down in 1658.
Walther von Meysenburg is the first fiefdom holder to be proven in 1337. In 1351 Gottfried von Meysenburg and his wife Katharina von Homburg were fiefdoms of the castle, later Prümzurlay, like Clerf, went to the Lords of Brandenburg (a sideline of the Counts of Vianden ). The families von Vinstingen (through marriage) and von Haracourt (also through marriage) are documented as fiefdoms. A line of the von der Heyden family acquired the Prümerburg estate together with Niederweis and Stolzemburg in the early modern period .
In the north-west of the valley, the late Gothic former castle chapel of St. Nicholas has been preserved.
Individual evidence
literature
- Bernd Altmann, Hans Caspary: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 9.2: Bitburg-Prüm district. City of Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinden Bitburg-Land and Irrel. Werner, Worms 1997, pp. 500-501.
- Johann Friedrich Schannat, Georg Baersch: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel. The cities and towns of the Eifel and their surroundings. Topographically and historically described , Volume 3, Aachen 1852.