Bärenfels Castle (weir)

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Bärenfels Castle
Keep on the west side (1991)

Keep on the west side (1991)

Alternative name (s): Steinegg
Creation time : 1000 to 1100
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Keep
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Weir
Geographical location 47 ° 38 '25.8 "  N , 7 ° 55' 31.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '25.8 "  N , 7 ° 55' 31.1"  E
Height: 702.5  m above sea level NHN
Bärenfels Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Bärenfels Castle

Castle Baerenfels even Berenfels , Berenvels or Steinegg called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle at the beginning of Wehratals on the 702.5  m above sea level. NHN Hohen Steinegg above the town of Wehr in the Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg .

The ruin is freely accessible at all times, the keep now serves as a lookout tower.

history

Presumably, construction of the castle, a typical high medieval clearing castle , began in the 12th century . The castle, formerly probably the seat of the Knights of Bärenfels , at that time owned by Messrs. Schönau and still called Steinegg after the mountain of the same name, came into the possession of the Lords of Aesch, a family of the Counts of Thierstein , in the 13th century Century in the fief of the Basel bishop .

On October 18, 1356, the castle was destroyed by the great Basel earthquake and then in the late 14th century it came into the possession of the Lords of Bärenfels, a Basel knight family whose ancestral castle was in the Birstal near Basel . From then on, the castle was named after its new owners and lost its importance. The castle was abandoned in the 15th century and was further destroyed by troops passing by during the Thirty Years' War .

description

The 16 meter high keep with its high entrance 9 meters high and 6.4 meters in diameter as well as the remains of a 3.6 meter thick shield wall have been preserved from the former castle complex.

literature

  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . 1st edition, Verlag des Südkuriers, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 267-270.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio . Published by the Castle Friends of both Basels on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Klingental printing works, Basel 1981, pp. 9-10.
  • Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
  • Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Tübingen and Leipzig, 1901, fifth volume - Lörrach district; Pp. 194-196 online

Say

The wedding at Bärenfels Castle - a Black Forest legend , In: Franz August Stocker (editor): Vom Jura zum Schwarzwald, eighth volume, Aarau 1891, pp. 209–215 online in the Internet Archive

Web links

Commons : Burg Bärenfels (Wehr)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Jakob Schneider: The Lütplager. In: August Schnezler (editor); Badisches Sagenbuch , Karlsruhe1846  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )