Burg Rheinstein
| Burg Rheinstein | |
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| Trechtingshausen | |
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| Coordinates | 49°59′37.3″N 7°51′30.34″E / 49.993694°N 7.8584278°E |
| Type | Medieval castle |
| Site information | |
| Owner | Hecher family (privately owned) |
| Open to the public |
open to public |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1316 – (rebuilt: 1825-1844) |
The Burg Rheinstein is a castle near the town of Trechtingshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
History
The castle was constructed in about 1316/1317. Rheinstein Castle was important for its strategic location. By 1344, the castle was in decline. By the time of the Palatine war of succession, the castle was very dilapidated. During the romantic period in the 19th century, Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794–1863) bought the castle and it was rebuilt.
Chronology
From the 14th–17th centuries, the castle of the archbishops of Mainz awarded as fief: owners and feudal lords were among others:
1323 – Matthias, Count of Bucheck, Archbishop of Maniz
1348 – Kuno of Falkenstein, Archbishop of Mainz
1409 – Johann von Nassau mortgaged the Privy Selheim with Johann von Königstein. Sometimes also hold the archbishops of Mainz, in its secular status as Elector of the Holy Roman Empire here.
1459 – Diether von Isenburg, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, mortgaged the castle with the village Assmannshausen (which is close to the castle on the opposite bank of Rhine) to Domscholasten Volpert by Drs
1572 – The castle is associated with all the goods and the Mainz Domkustos by Treasurer Anton Wiltberg over. It may, however, not economically castle keep. By and by forfeit, but remains to the death of Wiltbergs his residence.
1779 – The ruins found in Privy J.v. Eys a new owner. The divested the walls for four Laubtaler to the Regierungsrat H. v. Goll.
1823 – On 31 March 1823, Prince Frederick of Prussiabought the castle ruins and the rocks. The prince was a nephew of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Queen Luise.
1825–1829 – saw the reconstruction under the leadership of the famous castle builder of Claudius Lassaulx who was succeeded in 1827 by his pupil Wilhelm Kuhn, who completed the building. Prince Frederick named the castle "Rheinstein" because of its impressive cliffs directly above the stream.
1842 – Rheinstein Castle was the favorite residence of Prince Frederick. Many crowned heads of that time were guests at the castle, as Queen Victoria, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia and many others. According to his ideas is the Prince Frederick Wiesbadener Building Ph. Hoffmann, a plan for a chapel, with burial design. Just two years later, the neo-Gothic chapel with a worthy tomb for the family privy prinzliche.
1863 – After the death of the prince his son, Prince George of Prussia, inherits Rheinstein.
1902 – Prince Henry of Prussia, a brother of Kaiser William II, now inherits the castle.
1929 – in this year, the wife of Prince Henry, Irene of Hesse and by Rhine becomes the owner.
1953 – The last owner of the German nobility is the Princess Barbara of Prussia, the Duchess of Mecklenburg.
1975 – The castle is in private possession of the Hecher family
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