Asbach Castle
| Asbach Castle | ||
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Clericals, nobles | |
| Place: | Asbach | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 20 '26.8 " N , 9 ° 1' 35.6" E | |
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The castle Asbach is an Outbound Wasserburg in the village Asbach that the church today Obrigheim heard in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
Geographical location
The moated castle, fed by the water of the Asbach , stood south of the local church in Gewann Burggärten , where allotment gardens are today .
history
In the 14th century, the castle was owned by the Lords of Helmstatt as a fiefdom of the Speyer diocese . In 1440, after a feud, the Helmstatter had to renounce the fief and the castle became an open house . Thereafter, two sons of Elector Friedrich I von der Pfalz received the castle and village as a fief and, in the 16th century, Wilhelm von Habern, who also owned the Minneburg over the Neckar .
After the fiefdom moved in, the castle fell into disrepair and was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years War . According to the local history, it is assumed that the castle burned down between 1554 and 1556.
Nothing remains of the former castle complex , of which ruins should still have been seen in the 19th century .
literature
- Peter W. Sattler, Marion Sattler: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald - A guide to historical sights . Druckhaus Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , pp. 178-179.