Edesheim Castle
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| place | Edesheim | |
| Client | Bishops of Speyer | |
| Architectural style | Late Renaissance, Baroque | |
| Construction year | 1594 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 15 '45.8 " N , 8 ° 7' 56.9" E | |
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The Edesheim Castle is returning to a moated castle from the 14th century castle from the 17th century in the Rhineland-Palatinate Edesheim .
geography
Edesheim Castle is located in the Edesheim community on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest, between Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Landau in the Palatinate , two kilometers south of Edenkoben , between the Palatinate Forest Biosphere Reserve and the Rhine .
history
In the 14th century a moated castle of the bishops of Speyer is first mentioned in a document. The building known today as Edesheim Palace was erected in 1594. Since the Middle Ages , the castle building on the plain was enclosed by a wide moat to protect it from enemy attackers . Edesheim Castle is surrounded by a strong wall around two thousand meters in length. In the course of this, the uses of wall blocks can be seen. Wall techniques and stone material allow conclusions to be drawn that this wall was built over and over again over the course of many centuries. The ivy-covered curtain wall in the middle of Edesheim in southern Palatinate appears insurmountably strong and yet almost inconspicuous .
Under the direction of the Speyer church princes, the castle served as the official residence and as the prince-bishop's bailiwick . A hundred years after the expansion of the Edesheim Palace, it was destroyed by the French during the War of the Palatinate Succession - and then rebuilt. In church ownership for centuries, the castle was nationalized under Napoleon in 1804 as part of the secularization and from then on came into changing private ownership .
Towards the end of the 20th century, the castle was completely renovated and reopened as the four-star Hotel Schloss Edesheim.
Web links
literature
- Emil Heuser: Palatinate leader. 13th edition. Waldkirchverlag, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1969.
- Heinz Wittner: Great Palatinate Leader. German hiking publisher Dr. Mair & Schnabel & Co 1981.
- Where bishops once resided. In: THE RHEINPFALZ. Verlag und Druckerei GmbH & Co KG, Ludwigshafen, February 8, 2019.