Winneburg
| Winneburg | ||
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 The Winneburg seen from Wilhelmshöhe |
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| Alternative name (s): | Winnenburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Keep, hall, enclosing walls | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Cochem | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 9 '21.4 " N , 7 ° 8' 33.9" E | |
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The Winneburg , also called Winnenburg , is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the area of the city of Cochem on the Moselle .
Geographical location
The castle is located in the Eifel a good 80 meters above the valley of the Endertbach , which flows into the Moselle just 2.5 kilometers southeast of the town of Cochem. The castle belongs to the town of Cochem in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The next big city is Koblenz , which is about 40 kilometers northeast.
history
The castle was built in the second half of the 13th century and is the ancestral seat of the Lords of Winnenberg . It was first mentioned in a document in 1304, when Wirich von Winnenberg entrusted the castle to the Archbishop of Trier as a fief . In the following centuries the castle complex was steadily expanded, but remained in the possession of the Lords of Winnenberg. After this family died out in 1637, the castle came into the possession of the von Metternich family in the middle of the 17th century .
In 1689, during the War of the Palatinate Succession , the castle was besieged, captured and blown up by French troops. The Winneburg was henceforth not rebuilt and remained in ruins.
In 1832 Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich bought the castle ruins, but it was not rebuilt. It has been owned by the city of Cochem since 1932.
present
The appearance of the castle ruins is dominated today by the 22 meter high round donjon , which has a diameter of 8.5 meters. It is clearly visible from the Moselle valley and stands steeply on a mountain ledge above the valley of the Endertbach. The castle rock was still covered with vines until the second half of the 19th century, but today it has a dense mixed forest. The ascent from the valley to the ruins is steep and rather difficult.
The castle is entered from the north over a bridge, which leads over a partially buried ditch. In the extensive castle complex, which has been restored in recent years and thus saved from further deterioration, there are still numerous clearly towering remains of the palace , other residential and farm buildings, the outer bailey and the circular wall .
The ruin is not managed and is freely accessible at all times.
The Winneburger Tross association strives to reproduce medieval life in a castle as true to the original as possible and therefore organizes events several times a year at the Winneburg and the Reichsburg Cochem .
literature
- Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: Blown by the showers of the past ... castles and palaces on the Moselle . 1st edition. Schnell and Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1926-4 , pp. 162-167.
Web links
- Entry on Winneburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing