Nollig ruins

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Nollig ruins
Nollig ruins

Nollig ruins

Alternative name (s): Nollich, Nollig, Nollicht, Nollingen, Nollen, Fürsteneck Castle via Lorch or Fürsteneck Castle to Lorch
Creation time : 1300 to 1400
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Lorch
Geographical location 50 ° 2 '50 "  N , 7 ° 48' 0"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '50 "  N , 7 ° 48' 0"  E
Height: 176  m above sea level NN
Location of the Nollig ruins above Lorch

The Nollig ruin (also called Nollich, Nollig, Nollicht, Nollingen and Nollen ) is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a ridge, the "Nollig" or "Wachtenberg" at 176  m above sea level. NN , northwest of the city of Lorch on the Middle Rhine in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse .

history

It was built around the beginning of the 14th century as a three-storey half - timbered building , but was sheathed and reinforced with a massive wall a little later. Towards the mountain it was secured by a neck ditch and a shield wall flanked by two round corner towers .

To this day it is controversial whether the tower was part of the local city fortifications. The shield wall, which continues to the side, at least suggests such an intention.

Nollig Castle is named variously as the former Fürsteneck Castle :

  • In 2007 the Nassauer Annalen published a comprehensive article on the building findings, chronological acquisitions, strategic importance and historical embedding. In the core sentence, the original wooden construction is discussed, the thesis of an assignment to the city fortifications is refuted and the identity with the documented Fürsteneck Castle above Lorch is examined. Postgraduate studies, archive drawings and references complete the brochure , which was published as a special edition of the Nassauer Annalen No. 118.
  • Thomas Steinmetz sees the Nollig or Fürsteneck Castle as a counter-castle of the Archbishopric Mainz against the Palatine Castle Fürstenberg , which Kurköln had built, but had to cede to the Electoral Palatinate in the Binger Treaty of May 29, 1344 . He cites a Mainz document from 1349 as evidence, here the building is named buw zu forstenecke ob Lorche . The document describes the stone extension of the castle. The fiefdom index of the Middle Rhine marshals von Waldeck (not related to the Hessian noble family von Waldeck ) lists the Fürsteneck castle, here called Furstenecke bi Lorche , as a Mainz fiefdom since Johann III. Marshal von Waldeck zu Sooneck owned by the Marshals von Waldeck.

The building is privately owned and cannot be visited.

description

Knappe u. a. assumed that the almost square building with a side length of about 10 meters was probably less a ruin of a castle than a watchtower of the village of Lorch, which could also be inhabited in an emergency.

environment

The area around the Nollig ruins is one of the habitats with the highest biodiversity in Hessen . In particular, there are animals and plants here that are otherwise only known from southern Europe. The former fallow land and parts of the vineyards are now protected. However, the entry of fertilizer and the complete abandonment of its use threatens the abundance of life through encroachment . On historical recordings you can see that the area knew next to no forest until the Second World War.

The Nollig ruins have been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg publishing house. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 494.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 240.
  • Albert Ehrenhart Fichtel: The Nollich - a castle place above Lorch. Nassauische Annalen 118, Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 47-65.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Steinmetz: Fürsteneck Castle on the Rhine - a contribution to the castle building of the Archbishopric Mainz . In: The castle in the plane , Volume 17 of the series Research on castles and palaces of the Wartburg Society for the study of castles and palaces eV , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0329-1 . Pp. 557-263
  2. ↑ Thomas Steinmetz: Fürsteneck Castle on the Rhine ... , p. 259
  3. ↑ Thomas Steinmetz: Fürsteneck Castle on the Rhine ... , p. 259 f.

Web links

Commons : Ruine Nollig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files