Allmut Castle

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Allmut Castle
Alternative name (s): Ruin Allmut
Creation time : around 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: very little remains
Standing position : Barons, citizens, St. Blasien Monastery
Place: Waldshut-Tiengen- Aichen
Geographical location 47 ° 41 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 16' 39.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 16' 39.5"  E
Height: 548  m above sea level NN
Allmut Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Allmut Castle

The castle Allmut is the ruins of a hilltop castle in the district Aichen of Waldshut-Tiengen in the Baden-Wuerttemberg Waldshut in Germany .

location

The ruin is very inaccessible close to the hamlet Allmut below the confluence of the Mettma in the Schlucht on a steeply sloping porphyry ridge . The castle was about 25 meters long and only a few meters wide.

history

The castle was small, but had a good income from the nearby village, and was built by the Lords of Allmut , who were presumably free farmers. After this family died out, it came into the hands of the Counts of Lupfen in 1352 , a document from 1245 issued by the Canon of Strasbourg Count Heinrich von Lupfen in castro meo Almout has survived. It remains in Lupfischer's possession until Junker Eberhard von Lupfen pledged it to Diethelm von Mundelfingen for 420 silver marks. The village of Aichen belonged to the castle. Mr. Diethelm lived from then on in the castle and bequeathed it as a right inherent to his son Henry of Mundelfingen, who was married to wife Agnes of Heudorf . Henry replied and now pledged gradually piecemeal little domination Schaffhauser and Waldshuter citizens. When the lord of the castle died, he left only one heir, who was married to Göz am Stad from a Schaffhausen patrician family. He immediately took over the inheritance, but the lord's brother-in-law, Hans von Heudorf, also made a claim and immediately occupied the castle. This led to Göz taking Hans prisoner. Then you don't hear anything until the middle of the 15th century, when Junker Wilhelm von Heudorf and Ritter Pilgrim von Heudorf took over the castle. The von Heudorf were a knight dynasty from the Hegau and 3 members of the family had died in the battle of Sempach , they were on the side of Austria against the Confederates . The constant quarrels and feuds resulted in debts and the people were hard pressed. It is said that a farmer from Aichen was kept imprisoned in a block or stick until he died.

It didn't help, however, the mortgages and debts were so fragmented that order could no longer be established. In addition to the citizens mentioned, the owners were now Mr. Lukas von Reischach , the Landvogt von Rumlang , Mr. Heinrich von Wülflingen and Mrs. Veronika von Landenberg , so four pledge holders, or six, and insecure! The now subsequent partitions and quarrels led to the fact that the castle fell apart completely.

Multiple donations

In the years 1487 and 1488 a settlement was made in order to avoid an execution , in which Heinrich von Reischach was to get everything on reservation if the others were not solvent. The subjects, however, should continue to be liable to pay taxes to every pledgee, and to the Lord von Reischach for everything together; the people of Aichen did not want to see this. Ultimately, however, the monastery of St. Blasien bought the debts in 1498 and became the owner of the small estate Allmut . Ernst von Reischach zu Schlatt in Hegau also sold a small remaining portion and two Meierhöfe to St. Blasien in 1587.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caspar Molitoris , lib. origi. MS.
  2. ^ Rudolf Metz: Geological regional studies of the Hotzenwald. 1980, p. 894.