Wasserburg castle ruins

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wasserburg castle ruins
Creation time : Second half of the 12th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Bergfriedrest
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Place: Eigeltingen- Honstetten
Geographical location 47 ° 53 '23.3 "  N , 8 ° 51' 44.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '23.3 "  N , 8 ° 51' 44.6"  E
Height: 630  m above sea level NHN
Wasserburg castle ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Wasserburg castle ruins

The castle ruin Wasserburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a small 630  m above sea level. NHN high mountain cone 1500 meters southwest of Honstetten, a district of the municipality of Eigeltingen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

history

Wasserburg Castle was built during the second half of the 12th century. The castle nobility, the lords of Wasserburg, are documented between 1174 and 1300, they were ministerials of the Reichenau monastery . They were followed as owners in the second half of the 14th century by the von Hewen gentlemen. When the rule of Hewen passed to the Counts of Lupfen in 1404 , they were the new owners of the castle. In 1429 they lent the moated castle to Heinrich von Wildenfels, in 1431 to the Egg von Reischach, then to Veit von Asch. Veit worked as a robber baron, on May 30, 1441, he attacked merchants and stole goods worth 120,000 guilders . As a result, the moated castle was besieged by the troops of the Swabian Federation in the course of the city war in autumn 1441 . After they besieged and destroyed the castles Randegg and Staufen as well as the town of Blumberg, they also conquered the moated castle, although it was bitterly defended by the castle mistress Claranna von Reischach and eight men. They surrendered against the insurance for free withdrawal for them and the rest of the defense lawyers. The castle was then also destroyed. It was not restored, although it was called Vesti again in 1472 . The farm yard below was built from the stones of the castle; it was lent on after the castle was destroyed.

From the former castle complex on a castle plateau about 36 by 18 meters, remains of the keep 2.5 meters high have been preserved.

literature

  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (Eds.): Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-9806273-2-2 , p. 103.
  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 85-87.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 60 and 176.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (eds.): Castles, castles, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area , p. 103 and Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring Areas , p. 86 f.