Herzogenstein Castle

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Herzogenstein Castle
The castle hill

The castle hill

Alternative name (s): Rheineck, R (h) ineck
Creation time : 1359
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Count Palatine
Place: Dörscheid
Geographical location 50 ° 7 '6.9 "  N , 7 ° 44' 12.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '6.9 "  N , 7 ° 44' 12.6"  E
Herzogenstein Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Herzogenstein Castle

The castle Duke stone , even Rheineck - at that time R (h) ineck called - is a medieval , never completed hilltop castle in spur position from the 14th century, located five kilometers south-west of Bornich on the right bank of the Rhine Hill, the Roßstein near the village Dörscheid in Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The field name "Old Castle" in the area of ​​the ruins still indicates the existence of the former facility - comparable to Castle Heppenheft . North of it at a distance of 2.6 km is the Loreley rock , southwest on the left bank of the Rhine Oberwesel with the island of Tauber Werth down the Rhine .

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Today only a few remains of the unfinished castle are preserved. The remains of a tower, a building between eight and ten meters wide and some walls can be verified.

The ruin is freely accessible. The approach is possible via Dörscheid, then via the farm road to the ruin. The Rheinsteig and the Rheinburgenweg also pass the ruins.

history

The acquisition of the town and castle of Kaub ( Gutenfels Castle ) with the villages of Weisel , Nieder- and Oberdörscheid (until 1640, today Dörscheid) brought the Palatinate in 1277 the first property on the right bank of the Middle Rhine . To safeguard it, Count Palatine Ruprecht I planned the construction of a hilltop castle on a rock group - the Roßstein - on the Rhine hill northwest of Dörscheid, conveniently and effectively located directly on the Urbach valley, the border brook to the County of Katzenelnbogen . The Trier Archbishop Boemund II. In support of the City Oberwesel , then still Wesel called intervened Bauabsicht because you disadvantaged and cut off from the Rhine traffic saw was the new castle a customs office are. Initially, Ruprecht I relented on the mediation of Count Wilhelm II von Katzenelnbogen (construction stoppage on January 6, 1360), but continued work on the new castle complex. Armed confrontations and quarrels with Oberwesel dragged on over the course of the year, until Emperor Charles IV finally intervened and in autumn 1360 was able to convince the Count Palatinate to discontinue his construction project. In the following year, the planned Herzogenstein Castle was missing from the list of Palatinate state castles in the possessions on the right bank of the Rhine ( Kaub , the Pfalzgrafenstein in the Rhine, the Sauerburg ), which suggests that the construction of Herzogenstein Castle had been discontinued and the construction site may have been destroyed . The already employed Burgmann took over Kaub Castle in 1362 or 1364.

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