Neu-Ems Castle

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The Castle Neu -Ems (also " lock Glopper " or popularly known as " Glopper " ) is a medieval castle in the town of Vorarlberg Hohenems.

History

The facility was a castle of the nobility and knightly family of the lords of Ems.

1343 Built knight Ulrich I. von Ems with the permission of the Emperor Louis of Bavaria on the ridge of the Rhine valley in Emsreute, near his stronghold Alt- Ems a new castle to create his large family in a noisy time a fixed Hort.

1407 in the Appenzell War, the castle of the former Counts of Hohenems was first destroyed and rebuilt again.

1603 a chapel was on the ground floor, of which up to two lancet windows in the north wall no more remains are preserved today. The former altarpiece of this chapel ( Antwerp masters to 1515-1520 ) is since 1835 the Tyrolean State Museum.

Since 1843 there is this exceptionally uniform ensemble of buildings from small-scale stronghold with bergfriedartigem bulwark mounted Palas and of deeper bailey privately owned by the family Waldburg- Zeil - Hohenems.