Rietburg
| Rietburg | ||
|---|---|---|
 The Rietburg |
||
| Creation time : | 1200-1204 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Place: | Rhodt under Rietburg | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 16 '39.7 " N , 8 ° 4' 48.1" E | |
| Height: | 535 m above sea level NN | |
|
||
The Rietburg is the ruin of a hillside castle above the Palatinate municipality of Rhodt unter Rietburg in the southern Weinstrasse district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).
geography
The Rietburg lies at a height of 535 meters on the northeast flank of the 618 meter high Blättersberg . This belongs to the Haardt , which forms the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest .
The foot of the Blättersberg can be reached via the Bundesautobahn 65 ( Karlsruhe - Ludwigshafen am Rhein ), exit Edenkoben , from Edenkoben in the direction of Rhodt , then via a road in the direction of Rietburg to the parking lot near the Villa Ludwigshöhe Palace and the valley station of the Rietburgbahn ; this leads up to the castle as a chairlift.
investment
Only part of the shield wall and parts of the ring and the kennel are preserved from the castle .
history
Establishment
The creation of the Rietburg is dated between 1200 and 1204 and is attributed to the Lords of Riet . These were initially feudal men of the northern Alsatian Benedictine Abbey of Weißenburg , later ministerials and feudal men of the then Hohenstaufen German rulers. The family came from the area between Speyer and Germersheim and got its name from an area of origin on the Rhine overgrown with reeds . It was first mentioned in 1149 in a document from the southern Palatinate monastery of Eußerthal . The builder of the castle was Konrad II von Riet , the oldest of six sons of the father of the same name and his wife Adelheid, who had been married since 1184.
Hostage taking and loss of the castle
After the death of Konrad II, his cousin Hermann von Riet took over the rule of the castle. In the conflicts between the Staufers and Guelphs that flared up after 1250 , he remained a Staufer follower and went down in history through a political hostage-taking : in 1255 he took Queen Elisabeth , who belonged to the Guelphs , wife of the German King Wilhelm , and her companion during a trip from the episcopal city Worms to the Reichsburg Trifels near the local community of Edesheim and imprisoned them on the Rietburg. A coalition of regional princes and cities forced him on December 4, 1255 to give his prisoners freedom. Hermann got away with his life, but his castle was taken away from him and declared an imperial castle , which was directly under the king's control. The first lieutenant was the Upper Alsatian bailiff Otto III. from Ochsenstein . When his daughter Katharina was married to Emich V. von Leiningen-Landeck , the castle fell to a branch of the Leiningen family in the 1280s . The Speyer Monastery later acquired ownership.
Decline
In 1470, in the course of the Weißenburg feud between Elector Friedrich the Victorious of the Palatinate and his cousin, Duke Ludwig the Black of Palatinate-Zweibrücken , the Rietburg was shot at and badly damaged by troops of the Leininger, but was still habitable. During the Peasants' War in 1525, the castle got away unscathed. During the Thirty Years War (1618–48), however, it was finally destroyed and later not rebuilt.
Excavation and conservation measures
During excavation work in 1872, 580 gold and silver coins from the 16th century were found. In 1925, the municipality of Rhodt carried out extensive conservation measures to stop the Rietburg from further decaying. In 1931 the Palatinate Forest Association built a hut in the ruins of the castle , and the castle restaurant was built in 1955. The Rietburgverein has been trying to maintain the facility since 1991. So were z. B. In 2012 , 25,000 € were invested in a wooden bridge over the historic Halsgraben , over which a drawbridge once probably ran.
legend
The legend of the robber on the Rietburg tells: Once a robber baron lived in the castle (which is known as the "old castle"), he was called a "wild vulture with the face of Satan". He ambushed people and dragged them into his eyrie as prey. He was particularly hated among women. One day he stole a young girl who was gentle as a dove. The girl's father climbed up to the castle with some loyal followers, but tried in vain to storm the castle. Meanwhile the robber stood laughing on the battlements and demanded a ransom from his father. For a large amount of gold and ore he should get his daughter back. After the ransom was paid, the robber returned his daughter to the father - by throwing her off the battlements . When the girl lay shattered on the floor, the robber laughed uproariously. Then all the "fighters" flocked together, stormed the castle and overthrew the robber from the wall. Since then, he and his entourage have been chasing restlessly through the night as an evil spirit.
Todays use
tourism
A chairlift , the Rietburgbahn, has been leading up to the Rietburg since 1954 , and its route runs on the east side of the mountain - towards the Rhine plain . The view there can be enjoyed during the descent. The valley station can be reached on foot or by car and is located near Villa Ludwigshöhe Castle . This was built from 1846 to 1852 on behalf of Ludwig I , King of Bavaria .
The mountain station of the Rietburgbahn is only a few steps away from the castle ruins. An excursion restaurant, the Höhengaststätte Rietburg , is built into this and has an open terrace with a wide view of the Rhine plain. From here you can overlook the entire mountain road from Melibokus in the north to Königstuhl near Heidelberg . The view continues to the Steinsberg near Sinsheim as the highest elevation of the Kraichgau and with good visibility to the Heuchelberg and Stromberg . In the southeast you can see the northern Black Forest from the Badener Höhe over the Mehliskopf to the Hornisgrinde . In unusually good visibility can be seen far in the north-northeast, the skyscrapers of Frankfurt ( Westend Road 1 ), to the east the cat's back (right next to the king chair) and in the south-southeast to the Black Forest to the level of Kenzingen , where the Black Forest in the wake of Freiburg Bay to Swings east.
Sports
Every year in September, the Rietburg is the venue for the International Rietburg Mountain Run , which is part of the Palatinate Mountain Run series . It leads over a distance of 8200 meters and overcomes a total of 420 meters in altitude.
literature
- Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: Rhodt under Rietburg - Rietburg castle ruins . Schnell-Kunstführer No. 2739. Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-6831-6 .
- Alexander Thon: ... umb sunderlichen peace, pious and need of the land . Siege and fall of Palatinate-Alsatian castles in the Middle Ages. In: Olaf Wagner, Heiko Laß (Hrsg.): ... threw down stones / grôze and niht small ... sieges and siege systems in the Middle Ages . Supplements to Mediaevistik, Issue 7. Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-631-55467-2 , pp. 241-268, here 65-71 .
- Alexander Thon (Ed.): How swallow nests glued to the rock . Castles in the Northern Palatinate. 1st edition. Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1674-4 , p. 136-141 .
Web links
- Local community Rhodt under Rietburg: The Rietburg
- Rietburgverein: Rietburg
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
- Entry on Rietburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d local community Rhodt: The Rietburg. June 27, 2004, archived from the original on July 17, 2010 ; Retrieved August 19, 2010 .
- ^ Rietburgverein: History. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved August 19, 2010 .
- ^ Die Rheinpfalz , Südwestdeutsche Zeitung, May 14, 2012
- ↑ Epheuranken: The legend of the robber on the Rietburg . 1840. In: Henri Franck (Ed.): Palatine sagas . Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-921797-26-8 .