Nesselburg Castle

Nesselburg Castle
Castle courtyard and gate of Nesselburg Castle, on the right the approach of the Palaswand
Creation time :	Late 13th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	ruin
Construction:	Quarry stone, corner cuboid
Place:	Nesselwang
Geographical location	47 ° 36 '43.6 "  N , 10 ° 30' 9.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '43.6 "  N , 10 ° 30' 9.4"  E
Height:	1038  m above sea level NN

The castle Nesselburg is a ruined castle south of the market Nesselwang in Ostallgäu in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The ruin of the Höhenburg lies at a height of about 1038 meters on the cone of a - called "Kappelköpfel" - foothills of the Alpspitz about 170 meters above Nesselwang in Swabia .

history

View from the hall of the shield wall

The shield wall from the south

The shield wall from the courtyard

The fortress was laid out towards the end of the 13th century by the noble lords of Rettenberg. The first documented mention of the castle comes from the year 1302. Shortly afterwards, the Rettenbergers pledged the rule to the bishopric of Augsburg , but received the rule back as a fief . From 1350 the "Burch ze Nesselwanch" was the center of a nursing office, as the last Heinrich from Rettenberg died childless. Heinrich's relative Peter von Hohenegg, who had made claims to the inheritance, received 1,300 pounds of Heller as compensation from the bishopric.

During the Peasants' War in 1525 the rebels looted the foster seat and set fire to it. Then the castle was made habitable again.

The Augsburg keepers and bailiffs lived in the Nesselburg until 1595 when another fire made the rooms uninhabitable. In 1601, the Hochstift therefore acquired a house on Nesselwanger Hauptstrasse as a new nursing home. This property was also destroyed by flames in the Nesselwanger local fire in 1635. A new office building - demolished in 1976 - was then built on the old site.

The castle was acquired in 1996 by a private buyer who had renovation work carried out in 1997 on the masonry, which was in danger of collapsing. The renovation was stopped after a year.

description

In addition to trenches and traces of terrain, there are still larger remains of the wall, which have been gradually renovated since 1997.

A ditch protects the complex against the mountainside , in the east and west the terrain slopes steeply to the side of the Bachtobeln. Larger remains of the masonry stand upright on the rectangular castle plateau, measuring around 30 x 23 meters. The Palas rose to the north, while the remains of the 2.6 meter thick and up to seven meter high shield wall lie in the south . The eastern connecting wall to the hall has been completely removed, the western wall with the gate next to the main building is still there. The north wall of the hall is also largely missing.

The irregular masonry consists of creek rubble, Nagelfluh , sandstone and tuff stone . Remains of corner cuboids can still be found in the southeast corner. The old castle path leads from the northwest to the gate opening. Before that, another trench cuts through the mountainside to the north.

literature

• Ludwig Holzner: The Nesselburg . In: Publications of the "Alt-Füssen" association , 4th year 1928 No. 15/16.
• Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 2: Castle ruins in the West Allgäu and in the neighboring Vorarlberg, in the Württemberg Allgäu, in the northern Allgäu around Memmingen, in the northeast Allgäu around Kaufbeuren and Obergünzburg as well as in the eastern Allgäu and in the adjacent Tyrol . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-115-7 , pp. 209-216.
• Michael Petzet : City and District of Füssen (short inventory) (= Bavarian art monuments 8). German art publisher, Munich 1960.
• Wolfgang Wüst : Castle and maintenance office Nesselwang in the Hochstift Augsburg , in: Wilhelm Liebhart (Ed.): Nesselwang. A historic market in the Allgäu. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-4126-8 , pp. 51-70.

Web links

Commons : Burg Nesselburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Zeune: Nesselburg castle ruins. (PDF; 220 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Die Burgenregion Allgäu. P. 1 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 29, 2009 (2007/2008). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.