Stein Castle

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Stein Castle
Gate Tower (2009)

Gate Tower (2009)

Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Ruin, gate tower, remains of walls
Place: Nassau
Geographical location 50 ° 18 '48 "  N , 7 ° 47' 27"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '48 "  N , 7 ° 47' 27"  E
Steinsche Burg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Stein Castle

The Steinsche Burg is the ruin of a hilltop castle near the city of Nassau in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located below Nassau Castle between the Lahn and Mühlbach valleys .

history

The castle was the ancestral seat of the imperial barons vom and zum Stein , whose lineage was first mentioned in a document in 1158 and whose most famous member was the Prussian reformer Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein .

The construction date of the castle is unknown. The family held the castle as a fiefdom of the Counts of Nassau . As an upstream fortification, the complex was intended to protect the main Nassau castle.

In the initial phase of the Thirty Years' War , the von und zum Stein family moved their headquarters to the former Zehnthof in downtown Nassau, which they expanded into the Steinschen Castle . In 1636 the old castle is reported to be in good condition. Towards the end of the Second World War , the remains of the castle were largely destroyed.

investment

The remnants of the wall that still exist today suggest a roughly rectangular outer wall ring , a tower in the middle and a palas in the northern corner of the castle.

gallery

  • Entrance to the cellar of the gate tower (2009)

  • Gate system (2009)

  • Palas ruins (2009)

The city of Nassau with the princely castle and the ancestral castle of the von und zum Stein family (Merian 1655). After the castle fell into disrepair, the family moved into a tithe courtyard in Nassau, which was expanded over time

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. 166-169.

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