Ruhenburg

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Ruhenburg
Rockenhausen, Schloßstraße 8: former castle

Rockenhausen, Schloßstraße 8: former castle

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 Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '46.5 "  N , 7 ° 49' 10.7"  E
Ruhenburg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Ruhenburg

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 .

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