Blideneck stronghold

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Blideneck stronghold
Alternative name (s): Blideneck Castle
Creation time : 1279
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Lorch - Ransel
Geographical location 50 ° 5 '26 "  N , 7 ° 52' 2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '26 "  N , 7 ° 52' 2"  E
Height: 325  m above sea level NN
Fortress Blideneck (Hesse)
Blideneck stronghold

The fortress Blideneck even castle Blideneck called, is an Outbound hilltop castle not far from the district Ransel the city Lorch on Middle Rhine in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis ( Hesse ).

Geographical location

The castle stable of Blideneck Castle is located on a narrow mountain ridge at 325  m above sea level. NN between Dolsitbach and Herrnsbach on the access to Rheinberg Castle, 475 meters north and 74 meters higher, 2 km southeast of the Ransel district. Today's Burgstall shows only a neck ditch and minor wall and processing marks. Missing wall rubble indicates a wooden structure.

history

The castle was built in 1279 as a fortress by the Archbishop of the Archbishopric of Mainz against Rheinberg Castle to set up Bliden (small cannons) and other entrenchments . Blideneck Castle blocked the only access route to Rheinberg Castle. Rheinberg had to capitulate in the summer of 1280, but was quickly rebuilt.

The reason for the stronghold was the Sponheim feud between the higher nobility of Kurmainz and the surrounding area against Archbishop Werner von Eppstein , who was supported by the cities. In the battle of Sprendlingen was Rheingrafenstein Siegfried of Rheinberg, one of the leaders, have been captured. The Archbishop of Mainz was punished against him and his castle.

After the siege of Rheinberg Castle, the Archbishop of Mainz, Werner von Eppstein, tried to keep the stronghold. On July 23, 1280, he succeeded in winning Count Adolf von Nassau and on August 13, 1280 Emmerich von Heppenheft as Burgmanns for Blideneck Castle. With the death of Archbishop Werner von Eppstein, however, Blideneck lost all importance, was not mentioned in a document and fell into disrepair.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 486.
  • Wolfgang L. Roser: The Rheinberg Castle in the Wispertal. A fortification of the Rheingrafen , Nassauische Annalen, Vol. 102, 1991, pp. 13-29

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blideneck Castle, Rheingau-Taunus District. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 4, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 28, 2012 .