Amlishagen Castle

Amlishagen Castle
	Amlishagen Castle - residential building
Alternative name (s):	Amlishagen Castle
Creation time :	1200 to 1300
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Receive
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Shield wall castle
Place:	Amlishagen
Geographical location	49 ° 15 '45 " N , 9 ° 57' 43" E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '45 " N , 9 ° 57' 43" E
Height:	440 m above sea level NN

Shield wall of Amlishagen Castle

The Amlishagen Castle is a Spur castle above the Brettachtal the village Amlishagen , a district of Gerabronn in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

location

The castle is 440 m above sea level. NN on the southern edge of the village of the same name, which is set back on a moderately sloping estuary of the Hohenlohe Plain above the Brettach valley that tapers to the southeast . On the central axis of the spur a more and more deepening depression runs into the valley, so that it is divided into two at the end; the building stands on the southwestern part spur immediately above the drop hammer to Smith blade whose volatile stream before the spur of the right and to about 375 m above sea level. NN flows into the small river. The slopes into the valley are covered with forest, so that the castle is difficult to see from the valley.

About 2 km to the east at the inlet of the Blaubach into the Brettach are the ruins of Bebenburg , near Rot am See -Bemberg, about 3 km to the southwest within a loop of the river the ruins of Werdeck near Rot am See-Werdeck.

history

The castle was built in the 13th century and was first mentioned in 1253. In the second half of the 14th century, in 1601 and in the 19th century it was expanded and was owned by the Lords of Amlishagen and the Lords of Wollmershausen. Today the facility is privately owned and inhabited. It can be visited on weekends from Easter to October 31st.

After the Wollmershausen family died out at the beginning of the 18th century, there were several changes of ownership until the castle was bought by Blücher's personal doctor Johann Karl von Horlacher in 1821 . A distant descendant is still the owner of the castle and palace complex.

investment

The small weir system is a typical example of a so-called shield wall castle , as it was often built in southwest Germany.

The structure of the castle was excellently secured and preserved in the 1980s. Parts of the facility were reconstructed. A detailed archaeological investigation was carried out. From the first half of the 13th century to around 1500, a total of five construction phases have been proven.

From the first construction phase, a curtain wall has been found that corresponded to the dimensions of today's core castle. It was not until the second construction phase towards the end of the 13th century that the mighty shield wall was erected on the mountain side in order to protect the castle's only weak point from fire and attack with the neck ditch in front of it . The 20-meter-high, 19-meter-long and 2.5-meter-thick shield wall was crowned by a battlement that was recreated during the preservation and renovation in the 1980s . The battlement can be reached via a spiral staircase in the wall.

A kennel was also created around the castle during this construction phase . In the later construction phases were u. a. the five corner towers attached to the outer wall of the enclosure or integrated into it. Amlishagen Castle is located within the farm yard between the village and Halsgraben.

literature

Amlishagen Castle from above

(further shot)

Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 107-112.
Alexander Antonow: Castles of southwest Germany in the 13th and 14th centuries - with special consideration of the shield wall . Konkordia publishing house, Bühl / Baden 1977, ISBN 3-7826-0040-1 , pp. 114-116.
Wilhelm Gradmann: Castles and palaces in Hohenlohe . Stuttgart 1982;
Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 79.
Dieter Planck : Archeology in Baden-Württemberg. The State Archaeological Museum, Konstanz branch . Theiss. Stuttgart 1994. ISBN 3-8062-1168-X .

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