Gemünden Castle
The Schloss Gemünden is a palace complex in Hunsrück in Gemünden .
location
The castle stands at about 315 meters above sea level on a 30 meter high ridge above the town of Gemünden in the Simmerbach valley . It shapes the appearance of the small community of Gemünden. The castle is located on the northern edge of the Soonwald , ten kilometers south of the district town of Simmern and 50 kilometers south of Koblenz . Mainz is 55 kilometers east and Kirn twelve kilometers south (all information as the crow flies ).
history
In the place of today's castle stood a medieval castle , which was first mentioned in 1301, but is probably of older origin. The facility was initially owned by the Counts of Sponheim , who lent it to the Lords of Koppenstein and Schenk von Schmidtburg . In 1514 Schenk von Schmidtburg bought the facility from the heirs of the Sponheim family. During the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, the castle complex was largely destroyed by French occupation troops under Louis XIV , and between 1718 and 1728 the present castle was rebuilt on the foundation walls of the castle. The last woman from Schmidtburg married Captain Johann Anton von Salis-Soglio from Graubünden in 1815 , who was entered as a baron in the Prussian aristocratic registers in 1827 , and brought the castle to this family, which they still live in today. The castle Koppenstein part of the possession.
investment
The well-preserved castle consists of a rectangular three-storey residential building with four massive round corner towers. These have baroque curved skylights . Today's palace building was designated as new in a certificate of division from 1417. The second, older main building is now in ruins and consisted of what was originally a four-storey residential tower with two round towers in front . This building is also mentioned in the document from 1417. Two of the floors were later removed, so that today only the barrel-vaulted cellar and remains of the first floor are preserved. Both buildings are connected by an intermediate building. In addition, large parts of the outer bailey have been preserved.
present
The castle is privately owned and is inhabited by the owner family. Parts of the facility can be rented for family celebrations or other occasions. The interior of the castle cannot be visited. There are no guided tours.
literature
- Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich, Achim Wendt: "... where a mighty tower still looks down defiantly". Castles in the Hunsrück and on the Nahe. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2493-0 , pp. 68–73.
- Magnus Backes among others: The art monuments of the Rhine-Hunsrück district. Part 1: Former Simmern district. 1977, pp. 336-359.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '44.3 " N , 7 ° 28' 36.4" E