Bloßenstaufen Castle

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Bloßenstaufen Castle
Alternative name (s): Old Stauffen, Old Tower
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Keep stump
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Syrgenstein- Altenberg
Geographical location 48 ° 39 '46 .6 "  N , 10 ° 18' 15.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39  '46.6 " N , 10 ° 18' 15.6"  E
Height: 545  m above sea level NN
Bloßenstaufen Castle (Bavaria)
Bloßenstaufen Castle

The castle Just Staufen , even old-Stauffen and age tower called, is the residue of a hilltop castle on 545  m above sea level. NN on a hillside road to Altenberg between the Alter Thurm farm and the Staufen district of the Syrgenstein community in the Swabian district of Dillingen an der Donau in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built in the 12th century at a strategically important location by the local noble lords of Bloßenstaufen , who have been secured since 1171, as their ancestral seat. In 1387 the lords of the castle sold their property to the dukes of Bavaria. In 1420 Hans von Westernach , one of the interim pledges, had conversions carried out for 300 guilders and in 1449 the Bavarian dukes set up a nursing office .

In 1462 the castle was burned down by Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg and in 1504 it was finally destroyed by imperial troops during the War of the Bavarian Succession . 1536 acquired Melchior Visel, the Hofmarksherr of Staufen and mayor of Lauingen , from the Neuburger Duke Ottheinrich and his brother Philip, the remains of the castle and was built in 1538 with stones the castle Staufen Staufen.

In 1794, Baron Marquard von Hornstein bought the “Alten-Stauffen” castle rest, which has been known as “ain derelict alts house” since 1560, and built a Swiss farm with a residential house on the site of the former farmyard , from which today's Einödhof emerged. In 1808 the remains of the castle were demolished and the remaining ashlar stones were used for the abutments of the Dillinger Danube bridge .

description

The six meter high stump of the outer square and inner round keep with three meter thick walls, which in 1806 was 14 meters high, is still preserved from the former 30 by 40 meter castle complex . Presumably the cattle mill down by the Zwergbach was the former castle mill.

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. 19-26.

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