Sporkenburg
| Sporkenburg | ||
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 The Sporkenburg in April 2009 |
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| Creation time : | 1310 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Place: | Eitelborn | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 22 '1 " N , 7 ° 43' 43" E | |
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The Sporkenburg is the ruin of a late medieval spur castle around one kilometer south of Eitelborn in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The ruin is on the outskirts of the village of Eitelborn in the Westerwald above state road 329 between Bad Ems and Arzbach . Located in the middle of the forest, the Sporkenburg is not easy to find. It is best to follow the signs from the eastern exit of Eitelborn (Erlenweg, near the cemetery) down the Burgweg into the forest. You pass the barrier and at the crossroads take the path to the right, which slopes slightly. Alternatively, you can climb up from the L 329, from which the castle can be seen above the valley. The unmanaged ruin is freely accessible at all times.
investment
The tower castle is located on a roughly rectangular mountain spur above the Emsbach. The spur slopes steeply to the west, south and east. In the north of the castle there is a ditch in front of the neck . The outer defenses and the south facing Zwinger have almost completely disappeared.
The main castle is 35 meters long and 18 meters wide. It has no keep . On the north side, the castle has a five-storey, slightly kinked, shield wall reinforced with touring and almost 20 meters high. The entrance to the main castle was in the western shield wall. On the south side of the densely populated inner castle was the palace , the outer walls have been preserved. The eastern part of the inner castle is completely gone.
history
Probably under Archbishop Poppo (1016-1047) the lower Engersgau came under the rule of Kurtrier . Archbishop Engelbert (1079–1101) donated the village of Dezerhaid to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias from this property . In the late 13th century, the place was a fiefdom owned by Emmerich von Andernach and Heinrich von Lahnstein. They began with the construction of a castle. However, the castle was destroyed by Count Otto von Nassau , as Vogt von Kurtrier. Thereupon Heinrich von Lahnstein transferred his rights to Dezerhaid to Heinrich II. Von Helfenstein .
Heinrich II von Helfenstein had the Sporkenburg rebuilt from 1310, presumably not on the old site. He transferred it to the Archbishop of Trier Baldwin (1307-1354) as a fief. The castle developed into the center of the Helfenstein-Sporkenburg rule . The family of Helfenstein had besides their ancestral castle ( Castle Helfenstein ) located below the kurtrierischen Castle Ehrenbreitstein was, nor the Burgmühle Bach at Arenberg.
In 1515 Johann von Helfenstein sold the castle to Johann and Quyrin von Nassau (not to be confused with the Counts of Nassau). In the document, the castle was referred to as "vast buwefellig". In 1604 the castle passed from the Lords of Nassau to those of Metternich . It was destroyed by the French in 1635 during the Thirty Years War .
State Chancellor Prince von Metternich sold the ruins in 1811. In 1900 the building was transferred to Prussia and in 1948 to Rhineland-Palatinate. The Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Monument Preservation has been gradually restoring the remains of the wall since 1967.
literature
- Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich, Jens Friedhoff : "Decided with strong iron chains and bolts ...". Castles on the Lahn . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2000-0 , pp. 154-159.
Single receipts
- ↑ Michael Losse: The Lahn castles and palaces . Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-070-9 , p. 96 .
