Varsberg

Varsberg ( 1915-18 and 1940-44: Warsberg ) is a commune with 940 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region. In the north of the department is the 950 AD built castle of the same, after which the barons have been designated by Warsberg.

Demographics

Castle

The castle had the task to monitor the important road from Metz to Saarbrücken and protect. Already in the 12th century it was a fief of the bishopric of Metz in the hands of the Count of Saarbrücken. The village Warsberg at the foot of the hill was an ancient possession of the Abbey of Saint -Martin -de- Glandières in Longeville- lès -Saint -Avold.

In the 13th century the castle was destroyed, then rebuilt under the name of New - or large - Warsberg again. She now stood under the suzerainty of the Duke of Lorraine. History knows several noble families of Warsberg and three castles of the same name. In 1433 the two castles small and large - Warsberg were destroyed. They were 1200 m apart and separated by a narrow ditch. Later wholesale Warsberg was rebuilt.

The present castle stands on the site of Old Warsberg whose defense was then been the lords of Rollingen - Warner Mountain first task of the noble lords of Saarbrücken- Warner Mountain. Built on the middle of the 13th century Castle Neu - Warsberg resided the Lords of quantity Warsberg. The present castle was built in the 17th/18th. Century, inhabited by the bailiffs of the Barons of Warsberg.

The castle is named after the single vineyard castle Warsberg at Wincheringen within the extended position summit in the German Upper Moselle.

Barons of Warsberg

At the Knights of the families Rollingen and quantities that had to take over the defense of old or new Warsberg for the duke and the bishop, followed by the Barons of Warsberg, owner of the current castle and seigniory of the same name. They go back to Peter of Warsberg, son of John of Rollingen, called by Warsberg. Through marriages, they accumulated large estates and enjoyed high reputation in Lorraine, Luxembourg, in the Trier area (particularly Trier, Saarland castle and Wincheringen ) and to Mainz, where the Privy Councilor Lothar Friedrich von Rollingen the Stadioner yard was built and Speyer, where Henry Hartard officiated by Rollingen as a bishop. Bohemund of Warsberg reigned as Archbishop of Trier ( 1286-1299 ).

With Henry the barons of Warsberg included since 1483 to the Luxembourg knighthood. His son William II married the heiress of Rheineck and APREMONT. John IV of Warsberg called knight, Viscount of Rheineck, Lord of Freistroff Wincheringen, Wartenstein etc. He married Ursula, daughter and heiress of Louis Seinsheim Schwarzenberg.

Samson of Warsberg (* 1569 ) was a French colonel and lived in Freistroff later. In 1834, Alexander told Joseph of Wars mountain, and his two sisters on their goods. Alexander Joseph broke into his wife in Austria and later had to sell due to mismanagement of his fortune.

However, the name of the family still flourishes in Germany at Schloss Neckarsteinach.

Personalities

• Konrad stove (1450-1529), German book printer