Balm Castle

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Balm Castle
Destruction of Balm: The people of Schaffhausen carry away the castle bell. Romantic steel engraving after a drawing by Johann Jakob Beck, original in the Museum zu Allerheiligen [1]

Destruction of Balm: The people of Schaffhausen carry away the castle bell. Romantic steel engraving after a drawing by Johann Jakob Beck , original in the Museum zu Allerheiligen

Alternative name (s): Burg Balb, Burg Balp
Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Lottstetten -Balm
Geographical location 47 ° 38 '4 "  N , 8 ° 35' 41"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '4 "  N , 8 ° 35' 41"  E
Balm Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Balm Castle

The castle Balm (partly in the documents also Balb, Balp or Palm called) is an Outbound hillside castle 876 mentions on a small outcrop in the district Balm than Palba first time, the community Lottstetten in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg . Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex. The castle was the seat of the counts of Klettgau until around 1100 and then the seat of the landgraves, at times the Klettgau was also called "Grafschaft Balm".

history

The castle, which once controlled traffic in the Rhine Valley , was mentioned in 1294 and destroyed in 1449 by troops from the city of Schaffhausen in a dispute with Austria. Possibly rebuilt, the facility was finally destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The castle was owned by the lords of Balm, wealthy on both sides of the Rhine and supporters of the dukes of Zähringen until 1218 and then vassals of the barons of Regensberg . They appear in the documents from 1152 to 1291, were initially free class , later with citizenship in Schaffhausen and had a silver millstone as a coat of arms in red. In 1294 Lüthold von Regensberg sold the castle and lordship with the villages of Balm, Lottstetten, Nack, Reutehof, Dietenberg, Geisberg and Lochehof to Rudolf III. von Habsburg-Laufenburg , but the castle initially remained a fief of the Adelheid von Regensberg until 1310, and then passed to the Counts of Sulz in 1410 . Here in the week before St. Urban Day in 1408, Johann IV died. Balm Castle was the seat of the founders of the Sulzer branch of the Klettgau line, Hermann von Sulz and his son Rudolf III. von Sulz lived here with his family, his wife Ursula and their three sons until the castle was destroyed. Today the castle site is inaccessible and completely forested.

The Fronwaagturm on Fronwagplatz with the Astronomical Clock of Joachim Habrecht and the bell tower with the castle bell of Balm, also Küngeliglöckli called

The castle bell was brought to Schaffhausen by the Schaffhausen soldiers in 1449 and is still hanging there today in the Fronwag tower .

Folk tale

There is also a folk legend about this castle, that of the "castle woman of Balm" who walked around the castle after her murder by her husband and frightened her successor so much that she went to the monastery.

Different spellings, different families

Do not confuse the generations of the men of Balm with the same Barons of Balm . Their coat of arms shows the blazon : five times split by silver and blue, topped with a striding red lion.

Also not to be confused is the spelling with Balme (palm) : The coat of arms booklet of Bern of Thuringia Walther contains a coat of arms of a nobleman Peter von Balme from 1348 which shows the branch of a holly .

Balm can also go back to a Celtic (word) root. See: Balm (toponym) .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Alois Wilhelm Schreiber: The castle woman of Balm , in Badisches Sagenbuch, 1846  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Beck: Johann Jacob Beck . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume I . 33rd year 1956, pp. 205–209 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ a b c Balm [living space]. In: Discover regional studies online (LEO-BW). Baden-Württemberg State Archive, accessed on September 24, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Voellner, The castles and palaces between Wutachschlucht and Hochrhein , p. 46 ff., Hochrhein Geschichtsverein (ed.), 1975
  4. ↑ Lottstetten. In: Discover regional studies online (LEO-BW). Baden-Württemberg State Archive, accessed on September 24, 2012 .
  5. ↑ s. Alemannic pages
  6. ↑ s. Homepage of the Rheinau Documentation Center ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dokstelle.rheinau.ch
  7. ↑ s. A. Schreiber: The castle woman of Balm. In: Badisches Sagenbuch (editor A. Schnezler), pp. 117–119
  8. ↑ Wappenbüchlein , Bern 1612. Digitized edition of the Central Library of Bern ( e-rara )