Beuggen Castle

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Beuggen Castle
Beuggen-Buchhain ZW.png
Alternative name (s): Buckein, Buchheim
Creation time : before 1246
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Barons and ministerial nobility
Place: Rheinfelden (Baden) -Beuggen
Geographical location 47 ° 35 '20.2 "  N , 7 ° 48' 45"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '20.2 "  N , 7 ° 48' 45"  E
Height: 335  m above sea level NN
Beuggen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Beuggen Castle

The castle Beuggen is an Outbound hilltop castle on 335  m above sea level. NN on the Upper Rhine on a ridge northeast of the district Karsau-Beuggen near Rheinfelden (Baden) in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was mentioned in the 13th century and was owned by the Lords of Beuggen . Nothing is left of the former castle complex.

location

The castle was probably located on the ridge above the district of Beuggen. Today's Burstellstrasse indicates the location of the castle, of which nothing has been preserved. Beuggen Castle should not be confused with the castle of the same name , which is located below on the banks of the Rhine.

backgrounds

It is not known when and by whom the castle was built. From the beginning of the 12th century to the beginning of the 15th century, the von Beuggen family appeared who probably inhabited this complex. The gentlemen from Teufen resp. von Tiefenstein and the barons of Klingen mentioned, from which it can be concluded that the castle once belonged to the barons of Tegerfelden , who were related to the lords of Beuggen and who also owned a castle a little further west in today's district of Degerfelden.

history

Beuggen was originally a village with a church, Fronhof and castle. The noblemen of Beuggen lived in the fortress of the same name, which should not be confused with Beuggen Castle, which was built in the 13th century.

In 1246 Ulrich von Liebenberg bought the area of ​​Beuggen with its fortress and possessions in Nollingen and Hollwangen, which he bequeathed to the Teutonic Knights Order . In 1247 Ita von Klingen , née von Tegerfelden , also ceded her property rights in Beuggen to the Teutonic Knight Order, whereupon Mangold von “Beukheim” objected. He claimed that Beuggen Castle, the vineyards, meadows and forests that belonged to it were partly owned, had been transferred to him as a fief or that they belonged to him as a pledge. The later German King Rudolf von Habsburg was called to settle the dispute between Master Gotfrid and the Teutonic Brothers in Alsace and Burgundy and the “Mangold von Buchein” because of the “Veste Buchein and its accessories” on June 17, 1248 in Laufenburg, where an agreement was reached could be achieved.

In May 1247 the castle was mentioned again. The Riedern am Wald monastery handed over the goods belonging to their church light in the Bukhein Castle to the Teutonic Brothers of Beuggen for ten schillings a year.

The fact that in 1251 the last Staufer King, Konrad IV, confirmed the sale and donation of certain goods and the “Buken” castle by Ulrich von Liebenberg, suggests that the castle was an imperial fief.

A document dated November 13, 1266 shows how complicated the ownership structure of Beuggen Castle was. In it, the nobleman Hugo nobilis de Tüfinstein renounced his father's claims - “ex succesione paterne herediatis” - to the “castro quam in bonis, in villa et banno Buken ". It is not clear from where these paternal claims were derived.

It seems that the castle was abandoned as early as the 13th or 14th century. The von Beuggen family of the same name later had their residence in neighboring Nollingen. With the death of the Beuggen monastery brother Konrad at the beginning of the 15th century, the male line of the von Beuggen family died out.

Nothing is left of the old Veste Beuggen. Only the street name "Burstellstrasse" (derived from Burgstall) reveals the approximate location of the old facility, which was on a ridge north of the Teutonic Order.

literature

  • Bader: Badenia or the Baden region and people, Vol. I, 1859

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Bader: Badische Landesgeschichte
  2. ↑ The fact that this must be Riedern in the district of Waldshut can be seen from the deed of purchase from 1218, where Riedern is also mentioned. See ZGORh. Vol. 28, p. 93.
  3. ↑ ZGORh, Vol. 28, p. 102.
  4. ↑ Copy book of the German Order Coming Beuggen, Certificate No. 19, Regeste in ZGORh. Vol. 28, p. 90.
  5. ↑ Copy book of the German Order Coming Beuggen, Certificate No. 41, Regeste in ZGORh. Vol. 28, p. 388