Buchenbach Castle

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Buchenbach Castle
View of the church from the southeast (2012)

View of the church from the southeast (2012)

Alternative name (s): Buchenbach Castle, Upper Castle, Stone House
Creation time : 11th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: received restored
Place: Mulfingen -Buchenbach
Geographical location 49 ° 18 '12.4 "  N , 9 ° 48' 14.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '12.4 "  N , 9 ° 48' 14.8"  E
Height: 308  m above sea level NHN
Buchenbach Castle (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Buchenbach Castle

The castle Buchbach , even Castle Buchenbach , Upper castle and stone house called, is a hillside castle on 308  m above sea level. NHN above the village of Buchenbach in the municipality of Mulfingen in the Hohenlohe district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The castle stands on a dull and only slightly flattened Ostvorsprung the lower slope in the transition from the blade of the book Bach's Valley of the Jagst . The brook runs through the village at the foot of the castle, it flows about 200 meters further down and about 35 meters below it from the left into the river, over which a road bridge leads to its more pathable right floodplain. About 200 meters southeast of the castle is the church of the small village a little lower on the opposite slope of the lower Buchenbachklinge, through which a path leads up to the Hohenlohe plain .

history

The castle was built in the 11th century by the von Buchenbach family, named since 1098, who can probably be seen from the same tribe as the Lords of Stetten . In 1340 the castle was mentioned in a sales deed from Gernot von Stetten to the Lords of Bächlingen. According to an inscription from 1356, the castle was built by Rüdiger von Bächlingen with its built-in keep and changed to its present form in the 15th century. Rezzo, the last of Bächlingen, handed his share over to Hohenlohe in 1403 in return for an annuity, which Buchenbach sold to Zürch von Stetten in 1418. In 1974 the castle was sold by Sigurd Freiherr von Stetten to Johannes Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels , who extensively restored the castle complex and sold it in 1981 to the Stuttgart businessman Klaus Utz.

description

The rectangular tower castle with a height of 14 meters on a base area of ​​13 by 20 meters with a wall thickness of around one meter has four floors. The top of the half-timbered gable, visible from afar, with a wide view of the Jagst Valley, and the smaller, square, around seven-meter-high corner tower in the northwest corner of the residential tower date from the 15th century.

literature

Web links

Commons : Burg Buchenbach  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Buchenbach in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  2. ↑ Buchenbach at leo-bw.de
  3. ↑ Buchenbach Castle at burgenwelt.de
  4. ↑ Henry Doll: The baron is back. Hohenloher Zeitung, February 7, 2012, accessed on December 30, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Buchenbach Castle at mobile-geschichte.de