Friedberg Castle (Oppenau)

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Friedberg Castle
Engraving from 1804 with a typified depiction of ruins over the city

Engraving from 1804 with a typified depiction of ruins over the city

Creation time : around 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Built-in remains
Standing position : Clerical
Place: Oppenau
Geographical location 48 ° 28 '36.1 "  N , 8 ° 10' 2.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '36.1 "  N , 8 ° 10' 2.6"  E
Height: 300  m above sea level NN
Friedberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Friedberg Castle

The Friedberg is the remnant of a Spur castle on 300  m above sea level. NN am Berg above the church of the city of Oppenau in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg . The castle ruins were expanded into a residential building in the 20th century.

history

The castle was probably built around the year 1300 by the administrators of the monastery to protect the monastery of All Saints . In 1319 the castle came into the possession of the bishops of Strasbourg , they used it as an administrative building. The buildings of the complex were renovated in 1574 and served as the seat of a bailiff . The castle then slowly fell into disrepair, and in 1605 it is described as “neglected”. In a big fire in 1615, the castle and the town of Oppenau were destroyed by flames, later a castle-like building was built in the area of ​​the ruins, which is now privately owned.

The castle complex was a rectangular building with a round, elongated residential tower , of which remains are still preserved, surrounded by two large neck ditches , which are now built over by houses.

literature

  • Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 87.
  • Dieter Krauss: Friedberg Castle . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden , Volume 64. Publishing house of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN  0342-1503 , pp. 223-224.

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