Alte Bürg (Riesbürg)

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Alternative name (s): Altenbürg Utzmemmingen, Alte Bürg Utzmemmingen
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg in spur location
Conservation status: Castle chapel and remains of the wall
Place: Riesbürg -Altenbürg
Geographical location 48 ° 48 '45.4 "  N , 10 ° 25' 53.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '45.4 "  N , 10 ° 25' 53.6"  E
Height: 525  m above sea level NN
Alte Bürg (Baden-Württemberg)
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The Old Bürg even Altebürg Utzmemmingen , the ruins of a hilltop castle probably dating from the 12th century at the court Altenbürg, in the municipality of Riesbürg , in Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The ruin of the Spornburg is about 525  m above sea level. NN height on a crest of an east-facing mountain spur above the valley of the Maienbach. It is located immediately north of the Altenbürg farm, about 1800 meters south of Utzmemmingen .

history

In 1274 that is old Bürg mentioned for the first time when Konrad von Oettingen the castrum dictum urbem antiquam then, "the old castle (urbs referred to in the Middle Ages generally a castle or fortress settlement) is called the castle" to which, Klosterzimmern sold . The castle was already gone by then.

In 1318, the former farm yard of the castle and the Altenbürg castle stable came to Hermann and Herdegen von Hürnheim zu Katzenstein on the exchange route . In 1395 they sold the property for 800 pounds of Heller to the citizens of Nördlingen, Götz Ainkürn and Fritz Töter; Among other things, the Burgstall was transferred from the Töter family to the hospital in Nördlingen in 1411. In 1665 the farm and the castle were returned to the Oettinger family when Count Wolfgang IV of Oettingen-Wallerstein acquired Altenbürg. In 1926 the property was swapped to Nördlingen. From 1934 to 1935 Ernst Frickhinger carried out excavations on the castle grounds, during which the foundation walls were exposed and documented.

Only small remains of the wall and the castle chapel , which is dedicated to Saint Hippolytus , remain of the former castle complex.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb , Volume 6: Ostalb - hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 199–202.
  • Wilfried Sponsel, Hartmut Steger: Past castles and mansions. A search for traces in the view of the giant . Typesetting and graphics partner, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-935438-27-3 , pp. 78–81.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages: Floor plan lexicon . Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 62.

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