Altentierberg Castle

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Altentierberg Castle
Creation time : around 1150
Castle type : Two-part hilltop castle, spur location
Conservation status: Wall remnants, trenches
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Lautlingen
Geographical location 48 ° 12 '21.2 "  N , 8 ° 56' 41.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '21.2 "  N , 8 ° 56' 41.3"  E
Height: 863.8  m above sea level NHN
Altentierberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Altentierberg Castle

The Altentierberg ruins are the ruins of a spur castle on a spur of the Tierberg at 863.8  m above sea level. NHN near Lautlingen , a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built after 1150 by the Lords of Tierberg as ancestral seat, mentioned in 1216 and abandoned in the 15th century. The residents of the Wildentierberg called themselves from 1313 Lords von Tierberg von der Wildentierberg , after which the line remaining on the family castle was called Tierberg von der Altentierberg. In 1332 knight Werner von Dotternhausen gave several serfs to Konrad von Tierberg von Altentierberg.

This line died out in 1480. Heirs of the Tierberg Haiterbach line in Meßstetten were also those of the Wildentierberg. Before the Thirty Years War the castle was already in ruins. In 1927 the remains of the castle were excavated by the church painter and castle researcher Konrad Albert Koch .

description

Remnants of the wall and the arched neck ditch up to 18 meters deep , which separated the castle from the mountain spur, have been preserved from the former small, presumably towerless castle complex. Before that there was still a bailey , which was protected by an arched ditch , which can only be seen in remnants today.

Castle chapel

A letter of indulgence from Avignon has survived from 1337 : According to Bishop Paulus Fluginens, those who take part in the altar patronage in the Wolfgang Chapel should be granted a 40-day indulgence of sins. In 1360 the lord of the castle Heinrich von Tierberg donated two masses a week in the castle.

Say

"The Schimmelreiter's secret love affairs"

An old legend tells of the Schimmelreiter who secretly meets with his lover at the Weichenwang . Sometimes on stormy autumn nights at the old Burtel Castle near Hossingen, of which there are still a few remains, a white horse rider riding across the Weichenwang (Heiligenwang) should become visible. The pair of lovers is a befitting relationship between a noble knight from Altentierberg and the pretty daughter of the Hossing lord of the castle. In 1898, Emil Schweizer incorporated the well-known version of this legend into his article from the Balingen Mountains. An old document provides a vague indication. The noble servant Kunz (born von Altentierberg) bought a castle near Meßstetten from the Lords of Bubenhofen on July 14, 1327 . Was the lord of the castle in Hossing in trouble and had to pledge to the rich lords of Bubenhofen? Was the gray rider Kunz von Neuentierberg and did he buy his parents' castle in Hossingen for his lover ?

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Holdings Dep38 T1 No. 1262 on Landesarchiv-BW.de
  3. ^ Hermann Krauss: Local and Church History of Meßstetten . 75th anniversary of the church. Ed .: Organ Fund Pastor Peter Gall. Meßstetten 1989, p. 17 .
  4. ↑ Dep. 38 T 1 No. 1350 on Landesarchiv-BW.de
  5. ↑ Dep. 38 T 1 No. 1267 on Landesarchiv-BW.de
  6. ↑ Emil Schweizer: Albverein leaves 10.01.1898 from Balingen mountains . Ed .: Schwäbischer Albverein Stuttgart. S. 11-13 .
  7. ↑ Holdings Dep 38 T1 No. 1351 on Landesarchiv-BW.de

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 66–69.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 192-199.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 293-296.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 74-75.
  • 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 .

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