Braunsburg is located on the L258 above the Aubachtal valley. Bruno I. of Isenburg was induced to build his own castle, which he called Bruns-or Braunsberg, derived from his first name, by the narrow living situation on his family castle. As location he chose the proximity to the old road between Dierdorf and the Neuwieder Becken. The construction period was between 1197 and 1210. He had acquired the castle hill with the associated forest from the Rommersdorf Abbey in exchange for an Icelandic vineyard in Langendorf (today Neuwied). Bruno's descendants named themselves after the castle, von Isenburg-Braunsberg.
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Bruno I. of Isenburg was induced to build his own castle, which he called Bruns-or Braunsberg, derived from his first name, by the narrow living situation on his family castle. As location he chose the proximity to the old road between Dierdorf and the Neuwieder Becken. The construction period was between 1197 and 1210. He had acquired the castle hill with the associated forest from the Rommersdorf Abbey in exchange for an Icelandic vineyard in Langendorf (today Neuwied). Bruno's descendants named themselves after the castle, von Isenburg-Braunsberg. The castle was fortified only to a small extent and consisted of a palatial, three-storey residential building with a two-storey porch in the southwest. Count Friedrich III. zu Wied (1618 -1698), founder of the town of Neuwied, had sought refuge in his castle Braunsberg during the 30-year war and wrote his will here in 1694. Then the gradual decline of the castle complex began. As early as the 18th century, the castle was no longer used for residential purposes. In the last days of March of the war year 1945, American guns shot almost all of the still towering walls of the castle ruins high above the Aubachtal. The buildings in front of the castle have been used since the 18th century as the official residence of the princely Wiedische personnel, initially by hunters and since the 19th century by foresters. The owner of the Braunsberg ruins and the adjacent woodlands is the Princely House of Wied.
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