Rohrburg

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The Rohrburg was a moated castle near Durmersheim in the former margraviate of Baden am Federbach . Explicitly mentioned as "Rohrburg" for the first time in 1481, but probably identical to the "Burg" Durmersheim mentioned in 1388. Belonged to the Margraves of Baden, who passed it on to various noble families as a fief . In the 16th century it was also the seat of a small supra-regional administrative unit, an “office”, to which only the two communities Durmersheim and Au am Rhein belonged. Uninhabited after 1700 and increasingly dilapidated, finally demolished around 1770.

description

The castle was probably rebuilt or rebuilt several times. In addition to the damp building site on the Federbach - which naturally suffered the building, which was only made of wood for a long time - warlike effects can also be named as the reason. We know of larger renovations and new buildings from around 1555 and 1657. It was only then (1657) that the main building of the castle was built from stone.

The feudal man Hans Dietrich Bade described his castle in 1662 as follows:

“ That house Rohrburg with a surrounding moat, located by and below the village of Durmersheimb, which, however, was completely lost in the war, fell down and looked like a wasteland. But I have put a new house on top of the cane, put it under a roof, and am still in the process of having the inner building removed little by little. For the other there is a Meyerhäuslein, barn and stables in the forecourt, which have been completely dilapidated. I had it repaired so that it could be lived in ”.

In 1763 the castle, which was already in decline at the time, was described as follows:

“ A model-like little castle built on three floors of stones was formerly inhabited, but dermally in the exit is still provided with a still usable beautiful storage area and below with stables. Item a corresponding one-pocket house in front of Holtz and built with stones from the rear, both buildings next to each other including the corresponding court layout ”.

The Rohrburg was located at the inflow of the Schmidtbach into the Federbach next to the mill that still exists today.

Owner of the castle

Feudal bearer :

  • 1481 Ott von Seckendorff
  • 1492 Hans von Bachenstein
  • 1510 Otto von Seckendorff (identical to that of 1481?), Then his son Joachim von Seckendorff
  • 1514 Thomas Günther (citizen of the city of Speyer)
  • 1516 Friedrich von Hirschberg
  • 1523 Veit von Schereck
  • 1525 Wilhelm Hesse
  • 1530 Georg Haller von Hallerstein
  • 1531 Philipp Breter von Hohenstein
  • 1547 Michael von Rosenberg
  • 1549 Cornelius von Lier
  • 1553 Wolf Haller von Hallerstein († November 4, 1571 on the Rohrburg), then his widow Helena Hallerin von Hallerstein as heiress
  • 1574 The palace was bought back by Margrave Philip II of Baden for 7,000 guilders

As the official seat (no longer as a fief) of Baden officials :

Again as a fief :

  • 1657 Hans Dietrich Badeer, bailiff of the two Baden offices of Steinbach and Bühl
  • 1687 Georg Heinrich Bader († 1709), who also called himself "Bader von Rohrburg" after his fiefdom, then the widow Maria Magdalena Bader, born as heiress. Sneak

Manager of the castle :

  • Johann Georg Wirth († August 15, 1746)
  • Conrad Jörger

literature

  • Martin Burkart: Durmersheim: the history of the village and its inhabitants; from the beginnings to the early 20th century , Durmersheim, 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical facts about Durmersheim

Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '54.5 "  N , 8 ° 15' 50.8"  E