Brauneck (Creglingen)

Brauneck City of Creglingen Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 29 ″ N , 10 ° 3 ′ 16 ″ E
Height :	330.4 m
Postal code :	97993
Area code :	07933
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Brauneck is a living space within the boundaries of the Creglinger district Reinsbronn in Main-Tauber-Kreis in Franconia dominated northeastern Baden-Wuerttemberg . The place is known for the ruins of the high medieval Brauneck Castle , which has been used as a homestead since its reconstruction.

geography

Brauneck is a little over half a kilometer northwest of Niedersteinach on the spur of the mouth of the Sechselbach into the Steinach, which runs westward in its shell limestone valley . The tributary, which is only about three kilometers long, arises in the northeast near the Creglingen hamlet of Sechselbach and only deepens into a notch valley on its last kilometer. That at about 330 m above sea level. Brauneck, located on the NHN , towers over the estuary by about 60 meters. The spur slope is overgrown with forest to the Sechselbach and the estuary, south down to the Steinach, overgrown stone bars suggestive of former viticulture stretch steeply into the valley.

Towards the west, the state border with Bavaria , which runs a little along the lower Sechselbach, is sometimes less than 200 meters away; Brauneck in Baden-Württemberg, like Sechselbach and a few other places, is located in the northern tip of the terrain of the city of Creglingen in the Bavarian region.

history

middle Ages

The history of the Brauneck residential area begins with the construction and the first documentary mention of Brauneck Castle around 1230. The history of Creglingen was closely linked to Brauneck itself until the Hohenlohe-Brauneck line that inhabited Brauneck Castle died out. Among other things, Gottfried von Hohenlohe-Brauneck received in 1349 for Creglingen the city charter . Brauneck Castle was finally destroyed by the farmers during the German Peasants' War in 1525 and remained in ruins.

Modern times

The rule over Brauneck came in 1791 together with the principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and -Bayreuth to Prussia and 1806 to Bavaria. From 1810 Brauneck belonged together with Reinsbronn to the Württemberg Oberamt and the Mergentheim district .

On February 1, 1972, the municipality of Reinsbronn, to which Brauneck belonged, was incorporated into the town of Creglingen.

Today Brauneck is located in the Reinsbronn district of Creglingen and belongs to the Main-Tauber district of Baden-Württemberg .

Culture and sights

Brauneck Castle

Brauneck Castle (2008)

The Brauneck residential area got its name from Brauneck Castle , the ruins of a high medieval spur castle that was laid out by the Counts of Hohenlohe-Brauneck . which has been used as an agricultural operation since the time of its destruction and reconstruction until today. A mighty keep and a curtain wall are still preserved today.

Castle chapel

The remains of a two-storey chapel with a Romanesque portal can be seen at Brauneck Castle .

traffic

The road 2256 coming from the lower Steinachtal passes Brauneck in the northwest in the Sechselbachtal. A spur road from the further section on the Muschelkalk plateau opens up the place. The district road 2875 branches off from the L 2256 at the mouth of the stream and runs up the Steinach into its valley. In Lower Steinach a steep branches from their platforms , which leads also to Brauneck.

Personalities

literature

Gottfried Stieber: Brauneck . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 255–260 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Brauneck - collection of images, videos and audio files

Brauneck on the leo-bw.de website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d LEO-BW.de: Brauneck . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 453 .

[LEO_Brauneck-1] LEO-BW.de: Brauneck . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

[2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 453 .