Bübingen castle ruins

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The Castle Bübingen is the ruin of a renaissance - castle in the district Nennig the municipality Perl in the district of Merzig-Wadern ( Saarland ) belonging to the district Bübingen connected to the village meadow has grown together. The castle was the ancestral seat of the Luxemburg-Lorraine noble family von Bübingen .

history

Bübingen castle ruins

Bübingen Castle emerged from a Franconian manor house, which was created in the Moselle region after the Romans were ousted by the Franks . The farm was located in the area of rule Nennig, on to 1769 the Elector of Trier , the Duke of Lorraine and the Duke of Luxembourg shared the sovereignty exercised. Bübingen Castle was the seat of a Luxembourg rule and the nearby Berg Castle was the seat of a Lorraine rule. The inhabitants of Nennig, which at that time already consisted of the districts Nennig, Wies, Berg and Bübingen, were therefore subjects of different lords. In the years 1330 to 1340, the Bübingen manor was converted into a moated castle by the Luxembourg provost Gobel von Remich in order to secure the passage over the Moselle at Remich together with the neighboring Thorn Castle . Over time, it developed into a renaissance castle. This was completely destroyed in 1668 by French troops under Marshal Créquy . In the second half of the 18th century it was rebuilt as a three-storey nine-axis castle with a baroque dome. The main front with two biaxial central projections stretched over 35 meters. The castle chapel was located on the ground floor of the northeast tower. In 1939, the medical officer Dr. Harms in the attic of the palace whose archive he the Landesmuseum handed in Trier and thus saved from destruction. In 1940 Bübingen Castle became the property of the Saarburg district and served as a teacher training institute for the next few years. During the heavy fighting for the Orscholzriegel at the end of 1944 / beginning of 1945, the castle served the German defenders as an observation post. In January / February 1945 it was attacked and destroyed by the American 94th Infantry Division. In order to eliminate a German machine gun post located there, the Americans unceremoniously blew up the castle wall. The surviving defenders on the upper floors were captured or shot, the crews in the basement were killed by throwing explosive devices. Bübingen Castle has been in ruins since then. It is now privately owned and not open to the public.

literature

  • Herrschaft Bübingen - documents 1337–1792, Landesarchiv des Saarlandes, holdings H.Büb-U
  • Wilhelm Avenarius: Castles and palaces in Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz undated
  • Inventory of the archive of Bübingen Castle. in: Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring areas. Trier 1941/42
  • Joachim Conrad, Stefan Flesch - Castles and palaces on the Saar, Saarbrücken 1988
  • Waldemar Bach - Gobilo von Remich built Bübingen Castle - a glimpse into its history. in: Nos cahiers: Lëtzebuerger zeitschrëft fir culture. - Joër 23 (2002), N ° 2, p. 71-75, ill.
  • Waldemar Bach: Bübingen Castle near Nennig. in: Saarbrücker Zeitung, History and Landscape 148, 1975
  • Kurt Hoppstädter: Castle ruins as witnesses to medieval history, in: Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes, Vol. 1, 1978
  • Tony Le Tissier: Patton's Pawns. The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
  • Waldemar Bach: Perl municipality in old views. Zaltbommel, Netherlands, 2014. ISBN 978-90-288-2895-7

Web links

Commons : Schloss Bübingen (Perl)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 27.7 "  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 45.3"  E