Wehen Castle

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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '17 "  N , 8 ° 11' 7.6"  E

The Wehen Castle
The Wehen Castle

The Castle labor is on a medieval castle anabolic Castle in the district labor of Taunusstein in Hesse Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis . It is located at an altitude of 370 meters above sea ​​level in the center of the village (Richtstrasse 6) east of the listed Evangelical Church of Wehen .

history

A noble family called de Wehena was mentioned in a document in 1227 (and went out in 1518), the place Wehen itself was first mentioned in 1285. He received in 1323 by Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria , the city rights awarded and was a walled city provided. Count Gerlach I of Nassau had the place fortified and built a castle around 1330 to secure his property, possibly building on an earlier tower castle of the local aristocracy. From 1346 (Nassau inheritance) Wehen fell to Johann I of Nassau-Weilburg . From then on, the facility is proven to be the court and administrative seat for the Wehener Grund (the area between Kirberg , Idstein , Bad Schwalbach and Wiesbaden ).

Extensive repairs were carried out between 1595 and 1611, and in 1630 the outbuildings were renewed and converted, and two archways were erected. The fortifications were completely removed.

In the 16th and 17th centuries the complex became the widow's seat of the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg: Countess Anna von Weilburg (1541–1616) (widow of Albrecht von Nassau-Weilburg ) from 1593 to 1616 and her daughter-in-law Elisabeth von Weilburg (1579–1655 ) with interruptions due to acts of war during the Thirty Years' War from 1629 to 1655.

After the Thirty Years War, it was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries into a princely hunting lodge . In 1769 the palace was the official seat of the Wehen bailiff and judicial councilor Carl Wilhelm Christian Ibell. In 1780 Karl von Ibell , who later became President of the Nassau government, was born here. Twelve years later the palace was the headquarters of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia , and in 1813 it was inhabited by General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg . The district court remained in the castle until 1943. In 1967 the wall on Weiherstrasse was demolished and the old moat was finally leveled.

The castle is a listed building and has housed the Taunussteiner Museum and the “Wirtshaus im Schloß” restaurant since 1995.

In the summer of 2018, walls were discovered during construction work on a neighboring property. A connection to the former Wehen Castle is assumed.

Excavations at Wehen Castle after a wall was found on a construction site

architecture

The palace or official buildings (to which the earlier name was also transferred) are grouped along the former city wall around a spacious courtyard. As already described, the mansion from the 18th century is medieval in its foundation walls. It is a massive and voluminous building with a rectangular floor plan, has a mansard hipped roof and a two-flight flight of stairs . The outbuilding, also from the 18th century, with plastered half-timbering and slated upper floor, has a hipped roof . One and two-storey barns with a gable roof delimit the facility.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hessen II, arr .: Folkhard Cremer, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 3-422-03117-0 , p. 798.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 341–342.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites . 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 . P. 463.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church Wehen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ As a result of their commitment, the region's first public school was founded in 1599.
  3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Wehener Schloss In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  4. ^ Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis: Museum Wehener Schloss, Taunusstein , accessed on September 15, 2017
  5. ^ Taunusstein: Museum im Wehener Schloss , accessed on September 15, 2017
  6. ^ Website of "Wirtshaus im Schloß", Wehen , accessed on September 15, 2017
  7. ^ Archaeological excavations in Wehen