Wildburg (Treis-Karden)
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| Creation time : | after 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Keep, hall, remains of walls | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Treis cards | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 9 '51 " N , 7 ° 17' 53" E | |
| Height: | 165 m above sea level NN | |
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The Wildburg is a rebuilt castle complex in the municipality of Treis-Karden in the district of Cochem-Zell ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). It is located about 30 kilometers as the crow flies southwest of Koblenz .
location
The hilltop castle stands on a wooded and steep mountain spur , around which the two brooks Flaumbach and Dünnbach flow from the Hunsrück . On the same mountain spur, only separated by a hollow, is Treis Castle, a few hundred meters to the north, slightly lower . The Wildburg lies at a height of approx. 85 meters above the confluence of the two streams. Located at an altitude of 165 meters above sea level, it is a good kilometer south of Treis in a side valley of the Moselle.
history
It is possible that the castle was built in the first half of the 12th century by Count Palatine Otto von Rheineck . With some certainty, however, the castle built by Otto von Rheineck is the immediately adjacent Treis Castle . The Wildburg was built around 1235 by the Lords of Wildenberg from the Eifel, from whom it got its name. The reason for the establishment was probably the administration of the inheritance of the Stahleck line of the Lords of Braunshorn , which Philip II of Wildenberg had acquired through his marriage to Irmgard von Braunshorn. However, the Wildenburg was first documented in April 1358.
After this line died out around 1400, Kurtrier moved in as a settled fiefdom . In the following centuries the castle changed hands several times (Lords of Miehlen, Lords of the Burgtor, Lords of Eltz ), but remained under Trier suzerainty.
In the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, it was destroyed by French troops, as was the neighboring Treis Castle and many other castles on the left bank of the Rhine. It was no longer of strategic importance at this point and was never rebuilt.
Current condition
In 1956 the ruins, like the ruins of Treis Castle, were bought, secured and partially rebuilt by tool manufacturer Kurt Honsberg (1905–1993). Ernst Stahl delivered the first plans, which were later changed, the architects Wolfgang Mentzel from Neuwied and Josef Hess carried out the work. From 1957, the Romanesque palace , which was almost completely preserved in its outer walls, was provided with a roof and rebuilt inside until around 1966. To 1973, the butt of the village in the north, almost square was the keep increased by one third and the gate tower and the perimeter walls restored. Remnants of the walls are still preserved from other buildings and the curtain wall. Today the castle is inhabited and can only be viewed from the outside. It has been for sale together with the ruins of Treis Castle since 2017.
Jens Friedhoff criticized the reconstruction as “a striking example of the reconstruction that is too far-reaching by today's standards ”, since neither an overall concept for the preservation of historical monuments nor archaeological excavations nor accompanying building research had taken place, as would be indispensable according to current monument preservation law. In addition, various nested and obscure additions were made to the northern gable of the palace, such as a transverse building with false biforias from 1970 and a winter garden only in the 1990s.
literature
- Alexander Thon / Stefan Ulrich: Blown by the showers of the past ... Castles and palaces on the Moselle , Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2007, pp. 159–161. ISBN 978-3-7954-1926-4
- Markus Sausen: The Huss called Wildenburg - The history of the Treiser Wildburg , in: From "Häckedetz unn Stifthere". History and stories of Treis-Karden Volume 7. Treis-Karden 2016, pp. 160–205
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Sausen, From ruins to jewels? - The reconstruction of the Wildburg in Treis 1957-1997 , in: Burgen und Schlösser , pp. 91-100
- ↑ Jens Friedhoff : The "rediscovery" of medieval castles in the Moselle region in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Friedhoff / Olaf Wagener (ed.), Romanticism and Historicism on the Moselle - Transfigured Middle Ages or Coined Modernity? , Files of the 4th scientific conference in Oberfell an der Mosel, Petersberg 2009, p. 7–33 (here p. 28)