Alt-Waldeck Castle

Alt-Waldeck Castle
Alt-Waldeck castle ruins. View into a neck ditch.
Alternative name (s):	Krandelburg, Randenburg, Neu-Waldeck (?)
Creation time :	10/11 century
Castle type :	Spurburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Little Wiesental - Tegernau
Geographical location	47 ° 42 '38 "  N , 7 ° 47' 25.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '38 "  N , 7 ° 47' 25.4"  E

The Castle Alt-Waldeck (Krandelburg) is an Outbound Spur castle , the order in 1149 on the occasion of a donation from the Lords of Waldeck was mentioned.

location

The Burgstall Alt-Waldeck (Krandelburg) is located on a mountain spur between the core town of Tegernau and the associated residential area Niedertegernau. It can be reached via the Rammelsgrabenweg which branches off about halfway from the municipal road from Wieslet to Eichholz. The last 150 meters down on the mountain spur must be covered over an overgrown path.

history

Alt-Waldeck Castle is mentioned in a document together with Neu-Waldeck Castle in 1149 , when King Konrad III. confirmed their possession to the Basel bishop Ortlieb von Frohburg . The two castles with all their accessories had previously been given to the bishop by Trutwin and Heinrich von Waldeck .

The castle was long believed to be in the hamlet of Hohenegg, belonging to Raich , a district of the Kleines Wiesental municipality in the Lörrach district in Baden-Württemberg . There is a field name suggesting a castle stables , but no structural references to a castle complex. The assignment of Alt-Waldeck to “Burstell” near Hohenegg was criticized by the historian Werner Meyer , who looked for Alt-Waldeck in Tegernau: At the southern exit of Tegernau there are references to two lost castles. Closer to the place is the so called "Schloss Tegernau" today , further south the "Krandelburg" . Werner Meyer suggested that the castle, which is closer to the village, be viewed as Alt-Waldeck, and the one a little further away as Neu-Waldeck. This is also supported by ceramic finds near the castle, which is closer to the site, which indicate an earlier foundation. A fiefdom description from the 15th century, in which Alt-Waldeck is used as a place name, suggests that the "Tegernau Castle" closer to Tegernau was Neu-Waldeck, while the "Krandelburg" further south was formerly Alt-Waldeck was called.

investment

On the mountain spur, two deep neck trenches protected the access on the mountain side . The castle plateau is oval, about 30 m long and 15 m wide. The castle plateau is terraced, but without the remains of a wall. On the valley side there is a horseshoe-shaped wall at the base of the castle hill. Ceramic finds could be dated to the 10th and 11th centuries.

Meyer assumed an early wooden earth castle and in the Baden find reports a typical example of an early historical refuge is seen due to the location, structure and find .

literature

• Stephan E. Maurer: The Lords of Waldeck . In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2013, pp. 121–138
• 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, p. 9 and p. 13
• Klaus Schubring : The final development of the Kleiner Wiesental . In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2015, pp. 49–63
• Badische Fund reports: official news sheet for the original u. Early history research in Baden, issue 3.1933 / 1935 (1936), p. 372 digital copy of the Heidelberg University Library

Web links

Commons : Burg Alt-Waldeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baden-Württemberg regional information system (LeoBW): - Hohenegg residential area - residential area - Baden-Württemberg historical local dictionary
2. ↑ Waldwirtschaftsweg; Can only be used on foot or by bike
3. ^ Regesta imperii IV, 1, 2, number 601 , Bader, Regesta of the former bishopric of Basel from 999 to 1280, ZGORh 4 (1853), p. 214f.
4. ^ Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (LeoBW): Niedertegernau - Wohnplatz - Historical Ortlexikon Baden-Württemberg
5. ↑ See among others Christian Adolf Müller: Castles and Palaces in the Markgräflerland . In: The Markgräflerland . Special edition 1973, p. 9 digital copy of the Freiburg University Library
6. ^ Werner Meyer: Burgen von A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio , S. 9 and S. 13; Heiko Wagner: Early castles in South Baden: Prospecting results as building blocks for regional history. In: Marburg Working Group for European Castle Research (Hg.), News on Castle Registration and Castle Research in Baden-Württemberg. Contributions to the conference in Esslingen am Neckar 10 to 12 November 2016. European correspondence sheet for interdisciplinary Castellogie Volume 4, pp. 342-344, Radebeul, 2018. Here pp. 344-347 Klaus Schubring : The final development of the Kleiner Wiesentals . In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2015, pp. 49–63, here pp. 56f.
7. ↑ Werner Meyer: Burgen von A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio , p. 23 with a sketch of the floor plan.
8. ↑ Baden find reports: official news bulletin for the original u. Early history research in Baden, issue 3.1933 / 1935 (1936), p. 372 digital copy of the Heidelberg University Library