The Kauzenburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle in Bad Kreuznach in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

History

The Kauzenburg was the residence of the front county of Sponheim . In 1206 the castle was first mentioned in a document in which King Philip of Swabia forbade the building of a castle. From 1206 to 1230 the first castle was built by Count Gottfried III. († 1218) and Johann I. von Sponheim († 1266).

In 1417 the castle was divided between the Counts of Sponheim and the Elector and Count Palatine Ludwig III. In 1437 another division followed under the Heidelberg Count Palatine Ludwig IV , Friedrich III. von Veldenz and the Margrave of Baden. 1444 followed Stefan von Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken as heir of the Veldenz share. In the Palatinate War between 1450 and 1470 the margrave lost his share. Elector Philipp expanded the castle. In 1503 Baden became co-owner again.

In 1620 the Spanish marquis Spinola captured Kreuznach and the castle, which he fortified until 1632. In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War , the Swedish king captured the castle. In 1635 the imperial troops took over the town and castle. In 1639 the French recaptured the castle under General Duc Henri II. D'Orléans-Longueville (1595–1663) and in 1641 the imperial under Gil de Haes took over the fortress .

After the Peace of Westphalia , the castle fell to Baden and the Palatinate. For the first time the castle was called "Veste Kauzenburg". The French under General Louis-François de Boufflers (1644–1711) captured the castle in 1688, blew it up and burned the building down.

Commercial use

In 1803 Andreas van Recum (later ennobled as Baron von Recum) acquired the ruins on the Kauzenberg. This fell to the Bangert manor . Large vaults and cellars were later found in the foundations of the destroyed castle and cleared out again. These were probably intended for the loss of weapons, but were then used to store the well-known Schloss Kanzenburger wine.

It remained in the family's possession until 1881 and finally belonged to Otto von Recum, then passed to the Kreuznach families Puricelli and Gräff. It was owned by the widow Werren when the wine merchant Elmar Pieroth bought Layen Castle , the property and the Kauzenburg in 1969 .

Pieroth wanted to give new impetus to tourism in the region and in 1970 had the building fabric that had been built up over the past few years removed. The architect Gottfried Böhm was commissioned to build the new building in 1970 and 1971 .

The architect crowned the brickwork of the Kauzenburg ruins, which can still be seen from the outside, with cubist oriels. He used glass, metal and the color wine red in abundance.

The Kauzenburg Foundation, responsible for the use of the historically valuable castle cellars in a way that makes sense in terms of local history, and the Kauzenburg Betriebsgesellschaft (later Kauzenburg Gaststätten GmbH ), responsible for running restaurants and hotels, took over the property.

The large feast at the knight's table is part of the gastronomic program . Today the property is managed by Kauzenburg Gaststätten GmbH .

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