Bühringen Castle

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Bühringen Castle
Alternative name (s): Überkingen Castle
Creation time : around 1250
Castle type : Höhenburg, Spornburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Bad Überkingen -Bühringen- "Burghalde"
Geographical location 48 ° 35 '24.7 "  N , 9 ° 47' 34.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '24.7 "  N , 9 ° 47' 34.9"  E
Height: 701  m above sea level NN
Bühringen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Bühringen Castle

The castle Bühringen , also known as Castle Ueberkingen called, is a Outbound Spur castle on a 701  m above sea level. NN high rock spur of the Burghalde above the confluence of the Rötelbach in the Fils not far from the place Bad Überkingen in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built by the Counts of Helfenstein around 1250 and was the seat of their ministerials . They are first mentioned in a document in 1258 with the knights Albrecht, Ulrich and Heinrich von Überkingen . In 1363, Hans von Obenhausen sold, among other things, the Überkingen castle to Count Ulrich von Helfenstein , it was later the retirement home of Countess Maria von Helfenstein, Duchess of Bosnia, the widow of Count Ulrich von Helfenstein, and after her death in 1405 it was transferred to the imperial city of Ulm sold, she appointed a bailiff . In the course of the peasant wars , the castle was burned down in 1525 and then almost completely demolished by the citizens of Türkheim.

description

The castle stable , which was secured towards the valley by deep steep walls, clearly shows three ditches and two walls towards the plateau . The neck ditch still shows the foundations of the outer defensive walls . Presumably two buildings existed, possibly also a keep on a small spur , which was separated by a moat.

literature

  • Karl Seith, Max Miller : Historic Sites VI - Baden-Württemberg - 6th volume . Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1965.
  • Günter Schmitt : Bühringen (Überkingen) . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 - Nordost-Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 271-276.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 128.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Source history: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 , p. 273ff.