Varsberg
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Forbach-Boulay-Moselle | |
| Canton | Boulay-Moselle | |
| Community association | Warns | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 10 ′ N , 6 ° 38 ′ E | |
| height | 222-395 m | |
| surface | 4.15 km 2 | |
| Residents | 951 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 229 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57880 | |
| INSEE code | 57696 | |
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Varsberg (1915-1918 and 1940-1944: Warsberg ) is a French commune with 951 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2016 Lorraine ). In the north of the department lies the castle of the same name, built in 950 AD, after which the barons of Warsberg took their name.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
| Residents | 699 | 722 | 737 | 850 | 879 | 915 | 960 | 928 |
Castle
The castle had the task of monitoring and protecting the important road from Metz to Saarbrücken . Already in the 12th century it was fiefdom of the diocese of Metz in the hands of the Count of Saarbrücken. The village of Warsberg at the foot of the castle hill was an old property of the Abbey of Saint-Martin-de-Glandières in Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold .
The castle was destroyed in the 13th century, then rebuilt under the name Neu- or Groß-Warsberg. It was now under the sovereignty of the Duke of Lorraine. History knows several noble families from Warsberg and three castles of the same name. In 1433 the two castles, Klein- and Groß-Warsberg, were destroyed. They were 1200 m apart and separated by a narrow ditch. Groß-Warsberg was later rebuilt.
Today's castle stands on the site of Alt-Warsberg, the defense of which was first the task of the noble lords of Saarbrücken-Warnersberg, then the lords of Rollingen- Warnersberg. The Lords of Mengen-Warsberg resided at Neu-Warsberg Castle, which was built in the middle of the 13th century. The current castle was built in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 18th century, it was inhabited by the Baillis of the Barons von Warsberg.
The castle is the namesake for the single location Burg Warsberg near Wincheringen within the large location Gipfel on the German Upper Moselle .
Barons of Warsberg
The knights from the Rollingen and Mengen families , who had to defend Alt- and Neu-Warsberg for the duke and bishop, were followed by the barons of Warsberg, owners of the current castle and the feudal lordship of the same name. They go back to Peter von Warsberg, son of Johann von Rollingen , called von Warsberg.
Through marriages they accumulated large estates and enjoyed a high reputation in Lorraine , Luxembourg , the Trier area (especially Trier , Saarburg and Wincheringen ) and as far as Mainz , where the Privy Councilor Lothar Friedrich von Rollingen had the Stadioner Hof built and Speyer , where Heinrich Hartard von Rollingen officiated as bishop. Boemund von Warsberg ruled as Archbishop of Trier (1286–1299).
With Heinrich, the Barons von Warsberg had been part of the Luxembourg knighthood since 1483 . His son Wilhelm II married the heir to Rheineck and Aprémont . Johann IV von Warsberg called himself a knight, burgrave of Rheineck , Herr von Freistroff , Wincheringen , Wartenstein etc. He married Ursula, heiress of Ludwig von Seinsheim Schwarzenberg .
Samson von Warsberg (* 1569) was a French colonel and later lived in Freistroff. His daughter Magdalena († 1647) married Philipp Balthasar von Dalberg (1597–1639) and they are the parents of Philipp Franz Eberhard von Dalberg (1635–1693), President of the Imperial Court of Justice . In 1834, Alexander Joseph von Warsberg and his two sisters shared their property. Alexander Joseph moved to Austria to live with his wife and later had to sell his entire fortune due to mismanagement.
The family name is still in bloom in Germany at Neckarsteinach Castle .
Personalities
- Konrad Kachelofen (1450–1529), German book printer
literature
- Friedrich Toepfer: Supplements IV. The Lords of Warnesberg . In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the royal and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , Vol. I. Jacob Zeiser, Nuremberg 1866, p. 306f ( Google Books )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stöhr et al .: Vinothek of the German vineyard locations: Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, page 336; published by Hans Ambrosi and Bernhard Breuer, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1982; ISBN 3-453-40338-X