Bargau Castle

Bargau Castle
Alternative name (s):	Veste barges
Creation time :	First mentioned between 1340 and 1347
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Schwäbisch Gmünd - Bargau
Geographical location	48 ° 47 '0.1 "  N , 9 ° 53' 59.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '0.1 "  N , 9 ° 53' 59.7"  E
Height:	559  m above sea level NN

The castle Bargau , formerly Veste Bargen called, is a Outbound hilltop castle in the district Bargau the city of Schwabisch Gmund in Ostalbkreis in the east of Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Geographical location

The Burgstall is located about one kilometer southeast of the Bargau town center, immediately north of the “Schlössle” farmhouse on a western ledge of the Scheuelberg at an altitude of 559  m above sea level. NN .

history

The castle was first named as "Veste Bargen" between 1340 and 1347. The castle was the center and the seat of the Rechberg rule of Bargau , in the time of the imperial city the seat of a Gmünd magistrate for the village of Bargau and the Gmündic parts of Unterböbingen , Mögglingen , Lautern and a number of courtyards. After being in a very bad condition in 1800, the castle was completely demolished in 1817.

description

Today's Burgstall shows no more remains. The appearance of the castle, the stones of which were used to build bridges, cellars and bakeries in Bargau, can only be inferred from excavations of foundations , lore and pictures. It can therefore be assumed that the castle, which can certainly be reached via a drawbridge , was surrounded by a wall with a north-western tower. At the eastern moat there was presumably a kennel with a well , next to it was found the foundation walls of a tower. In the place of the former small courtyard, called "Höfle", there is now a signal stone. The stables of the castle were outside the castle complex where today's farmhouse “Schlößle” stands, in the wall of which there used to be a sandstone painting “Annunciation” (1507), which could have come from a castle chapel in the northeast of the castle complex.

literature

• Klaus Graf : Wolfstal Castle, Bettringen Castle and Bargau Castle. In: Unicorn Yearbook. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1980, pp. 204-215 ( doi : 10.6094 / UNIFR / 10242 ).
• Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 1 - Northeast Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 31-36.

Web links

• Entry on Bargau Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bargau at leo-bw.de
2. ^ Burg Bargau in Josef Seehofer: Bargau in the past and present , Verlag der Rems-Druckerei, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1953, retrieved from werner-bargau.gmxhome.de