Althornberg Castle

Althornberg Castle
cistern
Creation time :	around 1100
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Castle stable, rock chamber, cistern, beam storage
Standing position :	Nobles, counts
Place:	Triberg -Althornberg
Geographical location	48 ° 10 '43.9 "  N , 8 ° 14' 23.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '43.9 "  N , 8 ° 14' 23.2"  E
Height:	786  m above sea level NN

The castle Althornberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on 786  m above sea level. NN in Triberg -Althornberg in Baden-Württemberg . It is located on a steeply sloping mountain ledge above the Gutach River and opposite the Niederwasser district.

history

Rock chamber

Beam bearings

Adalbert von Ellerbach is considered to be the builder of the castle (around 1100). From 1111 he called himself Baron von Hornberg.

The castle burned down between 1430 and 1440. However, it was occupied by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War and then set on fire again.

The castle was owned by the Lords of Hornberg , Lords of Triberg , Counts of Hohenberg and Habsburg . From the former castle complex , beam bearings , a cistern and a rock chamber are still preserved.

Escort towers

At the confluence of the Tiefenbachtal and the Schwanenbachtal, the Lords of Hornberg built a tower (escort tower) that could be lived in, which also covered the entrance to the castle and was thus a forward defense structure. Apart from the remains of a wall, there are no more traces of this Tiefenbach Castle . A second escort tower was built at the northern end of the rule on the Turmerberg, where the trade route could be controlled. Remnants of the wall have also been preserved from this Gutach Castle .

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus (editor): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Freiburg 1890, Volume II - Villingen district; P. 55 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University Library ).
• 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 .
• Konrad Heck: From the Althornburg and the barons of Hornberg, the founders of Hornberg and Triberg . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 12th issue, 1925, pp. 1–18 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
• Edith Reiss-Vasek: Althornberg . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Issue 21: Castles and Palaces of Central Baden. 1934, pp. 463–467 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
• Karlleopold Hitzfeld : The castles at Hornberg . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 50th annual volume 1970, pp. 373–402 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
• Karl Volk: The Althornberg Castle . In: Hugo Schneider (editor): Castles and palaces in Mittelbaden; Historischer Verein für Mittelbaden, 1984, pp. 433–435 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Web links

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

• Walkable castle rock at triberg.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ellerbacher leave historical traces , Schwarzwälder Bote , August 11, 2012, accessed on March 31, 2013.
2. ↑ s. Tearing Vasek p. 464.
3. ↑ since 1239 side line of the barons of Hornberg; s. Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book. Three volumes. Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1898–1919. Here Volume 1, pp. 239–240 ( digitized version from Heidelberg University Library ).
4. ↑ s. Hitzfeld p. 377.