Starkenburg (castle ruins)
| Starkenburg | ||
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 Remains of the former Starkenburg |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Starkenburg | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 57 '36.6 " N , 7 ° 8' 19.1" E | |
| Height: | 365 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Starkenburg is the ruin of a spur castle at 365 m above sea level. NHN , whose wall remains are in what is now the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Starkenburg .
history
The castle was the seat of the rear county of Sponheim until 1350 . Count Gottfried III. von Sponheim is said to have already resided at the castle. After the Grevenburg was built, the Starkenburg was administered by Burgmannen . In the 16th century the castle was used by the Palatinate Sponheim common lords, for example Count Palatine Johann I von Simmern was born in it in 1459 and died in it in 1509, and the "Castle" Starkenburg also served as the widow's seat of his wife Countess Johanna von Nassau. Saarbrücken (daughter of Count Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken ), who also died in the Starkenburg in 1521. Over the centuries, the Starkenburg gradually fell into disrepair. The castle was on the border of the parishes of Enkirch and Traben and thus there were also two feudal lords. The Enkircher part is mentioned in 1197 as a Kurtrier fief , the Traben part was given as a fief by the Corvey monastery until 1359 .
literature
- Michael Losse: The Moselle - castles, palaces, noble houses and fortifications from Trier to Koblenz . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-240-6 , pp. 135-137.
- Franz Irsigler , Günter Löffler (Ed.): Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . Supplement V / 4: Johannes Mötsch : The counties of Sponheim . Habelt, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1341-1 .
Web links
- To search for cultural assets: Starkenburg castle ruins in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Leo : Lectures on the history of the German people and empire , published by E. Anton, 1865
- ↑ Susanne Kern: The inscriptions of the Protestant St. Stephen's Church in Simmern. (PDF; 1.24 MB) In: Inscriptions Mittelrhein-Hunsrück 12th Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz and the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., October 22, 2008, archived from the original on November 5, 2009 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 .