Murrmirnichtviel Castle

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Murrmirnichtviel Castle
Murrmirnichtviel ruins

Murrmirnichtviel ruins

Data
place Bad Dürkheim
Client Count of Leiningen
Architectural style Baroque
Construction year Early 18th century
demolition 1793 at the latest with the exception of a few remains
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '33 "  N , 8 ° 5' 39.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '33 "  N , 8 ° 5' 39.5"  E
Murrmirnichtviel Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Murrmirnichtviel Castle

Castle Murrmirnichtviel , more rarely Murr-mir-nicht-much , very occasionally Murmel-not-much , is the ruin of a hunting lodge with a watchtower that belonged to the Counts of Leiningen . It is located in the Palatinate Forest southwest of the district town of Bad Dürkheim ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).

history

Roman graves were discovered near the ruins , which are traced back to a Roman road station at this point. A watchtower was first mentioned in a document in 1534 and was still referred to as "the hermitage", a narrow, primitive dwelling. It was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

Presumably by Johann Friedrich von Leiningen (1661–1722), the tower - like the Kehrdichannicht hunting lodge only 600 meters away - was initially rebuilt to secure the hunting ground between Leiningen and the Electoral Palatinate and then expanded into a baroque hunting lodge. It is somewhat elevated on the south-west ridge of the Dreispitz ; so you could watch the Palatinate neighbors from the tower.

However, renewed destruction or decay must have taken place soon, because as early as 1781 the hunting lodge and the watchtower were referred to as Friedrichsburg ruins in a Salbuch . In 1793 at the latest, when the French Revolution had spread to the German territories on the left bank of the Rhine , the facility was finally burned down. The new name appears for the first time on a map from 1797.

In 1926 the walls were five meters high. In 1963 the ruin was handed over to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate from the care of the former Royal Bavarian Forestry Area. In 1988/89 the remains of the wall, which only consist of parts of the outer wall with window attachments and the tower stump, were exposed and secured.

Surname

The name Murrmirnichtviel is based on that of the hunting lodge Kehrdichannasst and was possibly formed by the vernacular . With regard to the disputes between Leiningen and Electoral Palatinate over the boundaries of the hunting grounds, "Don't murmur me much!" Was intended as an urgent warning and should mean something like "Submit without grumbling (to the prohibition to enter my hunting grounds)!"

Based on the historical Palatinate hunting lodges Kehrdichannicht , Schaudichnichtum and Murrmirnichtviel, the Palatinate NS Gauleiter Josef Bürckel named his hunting lodge Lassmichinruh, which was built near Ramsen around 1935 .

literature

  • Magnus Backes, Heinz Straeter: State castles, palaces and antiquities in Rhineland-Palatinate . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-1566-7 .
  • Jürgen Keddigkeit: Castles in the loneliness of the forest: from the Palatinate and Liningian hunting castles in the Palatinate Forest . In: Die Pfalz am Rhein 1991, 2, pp. 14-15.
  • Walter Eitelmann: Knight Stones in the Palatinate Forest . 4th edition. Palatinate Forest Association, Neustadt / Weinstrasse 1998, ISBN 3-00-003544-3 .
  • Günter Stein : Castles and palaces in the Palatinate . Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1976, ISBN 3-8035-8356-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heodor Berger, Kurtz Condensed Genealogical, Historical, Political description of the new Princely. Houses and Counts of H. Röm. Reichs , p.316