Bürgle (Sölden, Wittnau)
| Bürgle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Heidenschloss, Scherzingen Castle | |
| Creation time : | before 1115 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, neck ditches, pieces of infill wall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Sölden , Wittnau -Biezighofen | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 56 '0.8 " N , 7 ° 49' 22.3" E | |
| Height: | 595 m above sea level NN | |
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The Bürgle is an Outbound hilltop castle on 595 m above sea level. NN on the boundary of Sölden and Wittnau in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1115 as "destructo castello". It was probably the castle seat of the Lords (Counts) of Scherzingen and was allegedly demolished when Geraldus von Scherzingen gave his Allod Selden to the Cluny Abbey for the foundation of the women's monastery in Sölden - the nuns of the Bollschweil monastery were supposed to move to Sölden for this purpose .
investment
The castle site is located east of Sölden on a wooded ridge that runs in an east-west direction. On the hill called Birkle , the castle area is located in the area of two rocks, the cavity of which was probably also used. In the west and east, the castle was separated from the same-height terrain by a neck ditch , in the north and south it was protected by the steep slopes. The Sölden local history researcher Franz Kern estimated the size of the castle in 1973 as follows: the south and west walls were each 22.50 meters long and the north wall was 16 meters long, and he also imagined a gate on the east side.
Nowadays there are remains of infill masonry on the castle grounds.
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6, Tübingen 1904, pp. 352-353 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- Carl von Gagg: Some from the Hexenthale , Schau-ins-Land , 12th year, 1885, pp. 47–49 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Franz Kern : From the “Bürgle” in Sölden , Schau-ins-Land, 94/95. Year, 1976/77, pp. 393–395 ( digital copy from Freiburg University Library ).
Web links
- Entry on Sölden-Wittnau, Bürgle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Bürgle at etrossi.de ( Memento from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Brather , Dieter Geuenich , Christoph Huth: Historia archaeologica , 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022337-8 , p. 550 ( digitized from Google Books ).