Molsberg Castle

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Model of Molsberg Castle (before 1910)
Molsberg Castle from the west

The Molsberg Castle is a building in Molsberg in the Westerwaldkreis .

Molsberg had been the seat of the Lords of Molsberg since 1030 , who built a castle on Eichberg to secure the traffic routes on Hohen Strasse . Today's baroque-style castle was built on the site of the castle and has been the ancestral home of the Counts of Walderdorff since 1657 .

Molsberg Castle is bordered by an English-style landscape garden , which is dominated by an avenue of linden trees laid out in the late 18th century. The traditional Whitsun festival and various music events take place here every year. The former garden pavilion is now used as an art gallery by the Walderdorff Gallery.

For 2010, the restored baroque palace chapel was awarded a federal prize for handicrafts in the preservation of monuments .

literature

  • Magnus Backes: Molsberg Castle. Shape and building history, presented using the baroque castle model and the archives of the Walderdorff family archive , in: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier (Ed.): Die von Walderdorff, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-88094-832-1 , pp. 31–70.
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: Molsberg and Weltersburg , in: Nassauische Annalen. Yearbook of the Association for Nassau Antiquity and History Research, Vol. 69 (1958), pp. 202-221.
  • Matthias Theodor Kloft: 500 years of the Molsberg castle and palace chapel. 1493 to 1993 , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7954-1041-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Molsberg Castle in the Wanderatlas Deutschland
  2. ↑ Emmanuel-Walderdorff-Galerie ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.walderdorff.net
  3. ↑ Price for handicrafts in the preservation of monuments ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauhandwerk.de

Web links

Commons : Schloss Molsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 10 ″  E