Anebos Castle

Castle Rock Castle Anebos (2012 )

Anebos Castle is a ruined medieval castle rock in the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland -Palatinate ) above the southern Palatinate town Annweiler.

Geography

The hill fort is situated on the forest district of the local church Leinsweiler in about 480 m height on a typical rounded top rock mountains of Wasgau, such as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges is also called. In the vernacular of the castle hill is called Dick head. Castle Anebos and her sister castles Trifels and Scharfenberg known as Trifelsgruppe and regarded as a symbol of Annweiler, the spreads in the valley below the Queich. Nearby are also the castle stables Window Rock and Has.

Plant

From the castle, whose name may derive from " anvil ", today only a few remnants of walls and a filter tank, which was mislabeled as " rock chambers" recent excavations. Available are also machining marks on the castle rock.

History

The construction of the castle dates back to the early 12th century due to the present Baubefundes. The castle was the seat of the Lords of Anebos which are detectable only for the short period of the last decade of the 12th century to the mid 13th century. In the men of Anebos it was Reichsministeriale, which the feudal law had been transferred to the castle.

Appeared in 1194 in the wake of the Emperor Henry VI. in the Italian campaign a marshal Eberhard von Anebos. His brother Henry was known from 1196 as the owner of the Marshal's Office. 1234, 1250 and 1252 by Eliza Anebos, most recently known as the widow of a Marshal, documentary evidence. Middle of the 13th century seem to have died out, as further evidence of this family lack the Lords of Anebos.

Probably by the feudal law of succession came to the castle to the family of the kingdom Struch Eating Philip I of Falkenstein. His wife Isengard handed over the castle in 1246 to King Conrad IV This is an indication that the fief fell back to the Crown for the final extinction of the tribe of the family man. The last time the castle is mentioned in a document from the year 1266.

The activities carried out from 2000 excavations suggest that the castle was inhabited until the 14th century and was abandoned after that. Evidence of destruction by fighting still lacking. - After another representation is the result of excavations, which were carried out from 2001 that the castle due to the archaeological findings of 11 to be taken by the 13th century, while the historical sources show only the late period of the castle.