Ortenberg Castle (Hesse)

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View of today's palace building
Ortenberg - excerpt from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian , 1655

Ortenberg Castle is a castle complex that emerged from a medieval castle. It is located northeast of the town of Ortenberg in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

history

The Lords of Ortenberg are first mentioned in a document in the second half of the 12th century. Presumably it is a branch line of the Lords of Büdingen , who built the castle in the 12th century, according to an architectural historical investigation around 1180. In 1241 the castle was probably destroyed, as indicated by scorch marks on humpback blocks, but it was soon rebuilt. With the extinction of the Büdinger around 1245, the castle fell to a community of inheritors consisting of the Lords Reiz von Breuberg , von Trimberg , von Hohenlohe-Brauneck and von Kempenich . The Ganerbe used Burgmannen . For the year 1260 one is truce testified. In 1266 the settlement below the castle was first referred to as a city.

Parts of the badly fragmented Ortenberg rule came by inheritance to the House of Nassau , the Lords of Eppstein and the Lords of Weinsberg . In 1359 Konrad von Trimberg pledged a third of his 9/16 to Ulrich III. from Hanau . The county of Isenburg held 2/16 at that time. From 1438 to 1460 the 4/16 of the Eppsteiner share, the Eppstein-Munzenberg district , were pledged to the Lords of Kronberg . As heirs to the Eppstein family, the Counts of Stolberg-Königstein later held two thirds.

Count Ludwig Georg von Stolberg (1587–1618) had the complex converted into a Renaissance castle. In 1601, Hanau was able to increase its share in the castle to a third and, from 1622, had a new gatehouse built. In 1796 the Counts of Stolberg became sole owners; then significant new buildings followed. After the expropriation of Castle Roßla in the Harz Mountains, Prince Christoph Martin zu Stolberg-Roßla moved to Ortenberg in 1945. His daughter-in-law Hildegard adopted Count Alexander zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (* 1967). The castle is still owned by the Stolberg family and is only partially accessible as a museum.

investment

Visible remains of the medieval complex are the foundations of a round tower that was uncovered between 1953 and 1955, as well as some retaining walls with humpback blocks. The late medieval two-winged castle building also contains some older pieces of wall on the outside, but is essentially a new building of Classicism . In the outer bailey (gate from 1622 with half-timbered top) is the former Hanau house , used as a rent office, also a classicist building on the outside, but with a core from the 15th / 16th century. Century owns.

literature

  • Siegfried RCT Enders: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Department: Architectural Monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis I. Ed. By the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-528-06231-2 , pp. 358–362 and 371.
  • Peter Feldmann: Investigations into the architectural history of Ortenberg Castle. Microfiche. Marburg 2000 (also Diss. Univ. Frankfurt), ( Edition Wissenschaft, Series Art History, Vol. 21 ).
  • Georg Ulrich Großmann : South Hesse. Art guide. Imhof, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-935590-66-0 , p. 127f.
  • Georg Ulrich Großmann: Central and South Hesse: Lahntal, Taunus, Rheingau, Wetterau, Frankfurt and Maintal, Kinzig, Vogelsberg, Rhön, Bergstrasse and Odenwald. DuMont, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7701-2957-1 (= DuMont art travel guide ), pp. 145f.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 358f.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 286.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Feldmann: Investigations into the architectural history of Ortenberg Castle. Microfiche. Marburg 2000 (also Diss. Univ. Frankfurt), ( Edition Wissenschaft, Series Art History, Vol. 21 ); GUGroßmann, Renaissance castles in Hessen - catalog of the DFG project .

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '32.7 "  N , 9 ° 3' 25.9"  E