Bindstein Castle

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Bindstein Castle
Alternative name (s): Binstein
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Lower nobility
Construction: Small ashlar masonry
Place: Herbrechtingen
Geographical location 48 ° 36 '31.6 "  N , 10 ° 9' 39.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '31.6 "  N , 10 ° 9' 39.9"  E
Height: 490  m above sea level NN
Bindstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Bindstein Castle

The castle Bindstein or Binstein is the remainder of an abandoned high medieval spur castle in the Herbrechtingen district in the Heidenheim district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

Today's Burgstall is located about 2600 meters southwest of the town of Herbrechtingen in the Brenz valley , directly opposite the farm or the Bindstein mill in Eselsburger Tal . The earlier castle had probably only consisted of a residential tower and was once located on a pointed 490  m above sea level. NN high rock tower, the freely accessible fishing rock, found. Only small remains of the wall remain from the small castle.

history

Coat of arms of the Lords of Bindstein after Gustav Adelbert Seyler (1911)

The castle, which was probably built during the 12th century, once served as the ancestral seat of the Lords of Bindstein, who were probably of the lower nobility . A castle hamlet in the valley also belonged to the castle , of which today only a mill still bears the former castle name.

In 1171 the name "Binstein" for Burg and Burgweiler appears for the first time in a document in which Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa transferred the previously purchased fief in Bindstein to the Herbrechtingen monastery . The fiefdom holder at that time was a nobleman named Sefrid (Siegfried).

The next news about Bynstain comes from the time when the castle no longer existed, in 1537 the hamlet with two dilapidated houses including a barn, gardens, fields, meadows and fishing water was no longer part of the monastery after the death of the last owner, Klaus von Bindstein further awarded. Since the castle was no longer specifically mentioned when it was named, it was probably already gone, according to Günter Schmitt before 1390. The settlement existed even longer, it was only abandoned and demolished after 1933, until 1940 there was still a fisherman's hut at the foot of the castle rock , from which the rock got its current name.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, descendants of the Bindsteiners in Herbrechtingen can be traced as citizens or farmers.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 6 - Ostalb: Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 305-310.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 13-14.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The district of Heidenheim (Ed. Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg and district Heidenheim). Volume II. Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, p. 307 [Herbrechtingen: History of the city districts].