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The Münzenberg Castle, known by name since 1162, is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the 239 m high Münzenberg in the Hessian Wetteraukreis. It is one of the most important castle complexes in Germany dating from the High Middle Ages
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English: Münzenberg Castle, known by name since 1162, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the 239-meter-high Münzenberg south of the town of Münzenberg in the Wetterau district in Hesse. It is one of the most important castle complexes in Germany dating from the High Middle Ages. The castle has not been maintained since around 1600. When the Falkenstein family died out in 1418, ownership of the castle became even more fragmented, so that it could no longer fulfill its strategic purpose of securing control. It is significant that the Counts of Solms, as successors to the Falkenstein family, no longer settled in the castle, but south of it. There the new forms of representation (residential castle) and economy (manor) could be better realized.
Deutsch: Die seit 1162 namentlich bekannte Burg Münzenberg ist die Ruine einer Höhenburg auf dem 239 hohen Münzenberg südlich des Ortes Münzenberg im hessischen Wetteraukreis. Sie ist eine der bedeutendsten aus dem Hochmittelalter stammenden Burganlagen Deutschlands. Seit der Zeit um 1600 wurde die Burg nicht mehr unterhalten. Mit dem Aussterben der Falkensteiner im Jahre 1418 splitterten sich die Besitzanteile an der Burg weiter auf, so dass sie ihren strategischen Zweck der Herrschaftssicherung nicht mehr erfüllen konnte. Bezeichnend ist, dass die Grafen von Solms als Besitznachfolger der Falkensteiner nicht mehr in der Burg siedelten, sondern südlich von ihr. Dort ließen sich die neuen Formen der Repräsentation (Wohnschloß) und der Ökonomie (Gutshof) besser verwirklichen.
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