Ruhenburg
Ruhenburg | ||
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Rockenhausen, Schloßstraße 8: former castle |
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Alternative name (s): | Rockenhausen Castle | |
Creation time : | first mentioned in 1243 | |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
Conservation status: | Castle Hotel | |
Standing position : | Raugrafen | |
Place: | Rockenhausen | |
Geographical location | 49 ° 37 '46.5 " N , 7 ° 49' 10.7" E | |
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The rest Burg is an Outbound Wasserburg in Donnersbergkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz . Later a castle ( Schloss Rockenhausen ) was rebuilt at this point , which today houses a hotel in Rockenhausen .
history
The moated castle built by the Raugrafen was first mentioned in 1243 as castrum Ruhinberc . In 1399 it was a raugräfliche castle inhabited by castle men and was destroyed in 1504. The elector pledged the castle in 1549 to Junker Hans Jakob von Thurn, who around 1571 to a Renaissance -Wohnschlösschen with round tower , stone spiral staircase and cubic Baroque building with a steep, dormer occupied hipped newly built and doppelgeschossigem roof.
The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697). From 1713 to 1738 it was rebuilt as a three-wing complex with ancillary buildings such as a cellar house, stables and tithe barn . It was surrounded by a moat .
As a result of the Revolutionary Wars from 1792 to 1797, the palace lost its electoral seat under French rule. It was then auctioned several times until it came into the possession of the city of Rockenhausen in 1956 and was used as a town hall, library and daycare center for the elderly. After 2000 the castle was renovated and rebuilt. Today (2013) it is used as the Schlosshotel Rockenhausen .
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon, Volume 4.1: O-Sp . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2007, ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0 , pp. 291–305.
Web links
- Entry on Rockenhausen (manorial castle, Ruhenburg) in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: Schlosshotel Rockenhausen ) on the schlosshotel-rockenhausen.de page (