Ödenburg (Tübingen)
| Ödenburg | ||
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 Memorial stone on the site of the former Ödenburg |
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| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, earth elevation | |
| Place: | Tübingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 30 '20.8 " N , 9 ° 1' 34.4" E | |
| Height: | 419 m above sea level NN | |
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The Sopron is a Outbound Spur castle about halfway between Tübingen and its southwestern district of Hirschau in Baden-Württemberg Tübingen district . It is located on the Spitzberg mountain spur ( 427 m above sea level ) of the Spitzberg ridge ( 474.4 m above sea level ).
Geographical location
The Ödenburg is about 2 km east of Hirschau. From the summit region of the wooded Spitzberg mountain spur , its main arm ( 419 m above sea level ), which is particularly striking from there, first descends a little to the southeast, to form a narrow plateau after a slight dip, from there to a 407, 3 m above sea level Pass over the NHN high point and then drop off steeply to the Neckar . The Spitzberg-Ödenburg nature reserve is located on site .
description
Hardly anything can be seen of the Ödenburg today. Only the profile of the ground gives an idea of the disappeared complex, especially an elevation overgrown by bushes and trees, which is identified as the location of the Soprabag by a weathered memorial stone.
history
The origins of the disappeared castle complex go back to early medieval times. Albrecht von Hohenberg destroyed the Ödenburg in 1291. The Böblinger Götz (Gottfried I. Graf von Böblingen and Count Palatine von Tübingen) rebuilt it in the following year, but apparently more as a defiant reaction than for a real benefit. Because already twenty years later, in 1310, the Oedenburg appears really deserted and this time finally abandoned. In the 16th century there is still talk of "old walls, called the Ödenburg". As early as 1593, however, it was said that there was no stone left of the Ödenburg.
The Ödenburg in poetry
Ludwig Uhland stated that only the field name of the Ödenburg has been retained: “A dump on Spitzberg is called the Ödenburg in documents, location books and still usually. The Old High German adjective "ôdi", desolate, means empty, abandoned ... This is what Ödenburg might mean: to the desolate, abandoned, abandoned castle. The Tüwinge might have moved from the steeper, narrower mountain to another, more comfortable one, to the place of the present one; their former castle had now become the deserted, lonely one. They are nowhere to be found in a document, no servant of the Tübingen Count Palatine is named by Ödenburg, only the cut back of the Spitzberg still bears testimony to the former castle fortress ”.
Friedrich Hölderlin described the Ödenburg in his poem "Burg Tübingen" :
- "The fathers' feasts stand still and desolate,
- Black and moss-covered gate and tower,
- Cloudy remains through the rock walls
- The winter storm pounds at midnight, ... "
Excursion destination
For the population of Tübingen and especially for the student body, the Ödenburg used to be a popular excursion destination. From 1907 to 1914 Eugen Mannheim (1879–1974) ran the Tübingen Zoo there with an affiliated restaurant. Until a few years ago, there was a summer café, the "Café am Spitzberg", in the immediate vicinity. When you come up from Tübingen to the height of the Spitzberg and have followed the bends and turns of the little road for a while, you finally take a small path that winds down to the left into the forest. At the end it leads to the plateau of the Ödenburg. Before you get to the cone-like foundation of the missing main castle with the memorial stone mentioned above, a bench with an iron Art Nouveau table (the marble slab has been lost) invites you to linger.
References and comments
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Map of the Oedenburg (Ödenburg), in Tübinger Blätter , 1911, on commons.wikimedia.org
- ↑ a b Ernst Mögel: Hölderlin's "Burg Tübingen" - a poem about the Ödenburg , on tuepedia.de
- ^ Karl Klüpfel and Max Eifert: Oedenburg (Ödenburg), in description of the city of Tübingen , Vol. 1, 1849, p. 60.
- ^ Gerhard Wein: Medieval castles on the Ammerberg . In: The Spitzberg near Tübingen. The nature and landscape protection areas of Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 3, 1966, p. 3f.
- ↑ Report of the Tübingen office from 1535, based on: Gerhard Wein: Medieval castles on the Ammerberg . In: The Spitzberg near Tübingen. The nature and landscape protection areas of Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 3, 1966, p. 5
- ↑ In Annales Suevici (Swabian Annals) by Martin Crusius. (According to Rudolph Moser, Complete description of Württemberg ... , A geographical-statistical-topographical handbook and house book ... , 2nd volume, Stuttgart 1843, p. 473).
- ↑ If Uhland assumes here (like most of today's local history researchers) that the Ödenburg only got its name after it was "deserted", this is by no means mandatory. Given their lonely location, it could well be the original name. (According to a reference from Jürgen Sydow, History of the City of Tübingen, Part 1: From the beginnings to the transition to Württemberg 1342, Tübingen 1974, p. 120, note 13).
- ↑ Tüwinge and Tuwinge : modern romantic names of the ancestors of Tübingen Palatine
- ↑ Uhland's writings on the history of poetry and saga , Vol. 8, 1873, p. 596 (Supplements, No. 7: Ödenburg ).
- ↑ Hölderlin: Complete Works , on behalf of the Württemberg Ministry of Culture ed. by Friedrich Beißner, Adolf Beck u. a., Stuttgart edition 1943–1977, Vol. 1, pp. 101–103.
- ↑ All works. Historical-critical edition , edited by D. E. Sattler u. a., Frankfurter Ausgabe, 1975 ff, Vol. 2 (songs and hymns), pp. 11-24 (including facsimile of the manuscript)
- ↑ In addition to the main castle there was a further, facing the hillside bailey (see the map at Gerhard wine: Medieval castles on the Ammerberg . In: The Spitzberg in Tübingen The nature and landscape conservation areas of Baden-Wuerttemberg. , Vol 3, 1966, p. . 4).
Web links
- Von der Oedenburg , in Tübinger Blätter , No. XIII (13), 1911, p. 53, on uni-tuebingen.de