Böckingen Castle

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Böckingen Castle
Creation time : First mentioned in 1295
Place: Boeckingen
Boeckingen 1689
Böckingen 1760: The hill is marked in the south of the village

The castle of the Lords of Böckingen was a castle in today's Heilbronn district of Böckingen . The Franconian grave finds from the area of ​​the Böckinger Hechtstrasse and Kappelstrasse belong to this castle. After the fire of 1862, the Franconian cemetery, which belonged directly to the fortress, was rebuilt.

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1295 in the pension register of the St. Peter monastery in Wimpfen . The pension register describes the bailiff's house, Konrad von Böckingen, which was connected to the fortress, whereby the courtyard area of ​​the house included parts of the old fortress.

In 1342 the Lords of Böckingen sold the run-down old fortress, which was known as the Burgstadel , to the city of Heilbronn, together with three quarters of the Beckingen Bailiwick ; The latter was a fiefdom from Württemberg to the Böckinger. Furthermore, other rights and interests were transferred to Heilbronn.

In 1427 the Burgstadel is mentioned again. In 1431 the local nobles also sold the last quarter of their fiefdom , the Eberstein fiefdom, to the imperial city of Heilbronn. The Burgstadel is said to have finally been abandoned in the middle of the 16th century.

Localization

There is still no agreement on the exact location of the former castle.

  • The Oberamtsbeschreibung from 1865 locates the castle on a hill where the upper lake used to be, a former arm of the Neckar that silted up over time.
  • Schmolz locates the medieval fortress on Klingenbergerstrasse and Hofstattstrasse.
  • The State Office for Monument Preservation locates the castle in the area of ​​Hofstattstrasse / Strombergstrasse on a small hill in the south of Böckingen am Neckararm, which later silted up.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Böckingen am See. A district of Heilbronn - yesterday and today . Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1998 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 37), pp. 66 and 67
  2. ↑ a b Ursula Koch : Franconia in Heilbronn. Archaeological finds from the 6th and 7th centuries . Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1994 ( museo . Issue 8), p. 8
  3. ^ FWE Roth: Contributions to the history of the St. Peterstift in Wimpfen. In: Quarterly pages of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, 1886/87, p. 39:

    "Quam domum coniunxit castro, quia area eius domus partem castri tenet"

  4. ^ Document book of the city of Heilbronn . Volume I, Stuttgart 1904–1922, No. 161
  5. ↑ Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg Volume I.5 Stadtkreis Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 155
  6. ↑ a b Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg Volume I.5 Stadtkreis Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , p. 154
  7. ^ Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn , Stuttgart 1865, p. 263 :

    "On a small hill on the upper lake, still called the castle, on which the railway runs, formerly stood the fortress of a noble family who called themselves" von Böckingen "."

  8. ↑ Helmut Schmolz: Experienced and endured history. Böckingen and its past . In: Those were the days ... and Böckingen today? Industrial and commercial association Heilbronn-Böckingen, Heilbronn 1982, p. 11:

    "Elevation south of the place between today's railway line and Klingenberger Straße called" Hofstatt "."