Brauneck Castle

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Brauneck Castle
Brauneck Castle seen from the north

Brauneck Castle seen from the north

Creation time : around 1230
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Ruin, remains in newer parts
Standing position : High nobility, imperial counts
Place: Creglingen- Niedersteinach
Geographical location 49 ° 30 '29 "  N , 10 ° 3' 13"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '29 "  N , 10 ° 3' 13"  E
Height: 330.4  m above sea level NN
Brauneck Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Brauneck Castle

The castle Brauneck is the ruin of a high medieval Spur castle of the noble lords of Hohenlohe-Brauneck . It is located on the Brauneck residential area , northwest of Niedersteinach near Creglingen in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg .

location

The remains of Brauneck Castle are located near today's Bavarian border at 330.4  m above sea level. NN high plateau spur above the steep drop of the Steinach , a right tributary of the Tauber .

history

Brauneck Castle was built and first mentioned in a document around 1230 under Konrad von Hohenlohe, who founded the Hohenlohe-Brauneck line. She owned a large number of the surrounding villages. For the Hohenlohe dynasty it was one of the ancestral seats (next to Hohlach Castle and Weikersheim Castle ) and, at that time, a very extensive castle complex . As in Hohlach, their ministerials were the Lords of Enheim . The Hohenlohe-Brauneck line already died out around 1390, also because many of them became religious dignitaries. The last descendant of Count Konrad, Count Michael von Hardeck, sold the castle and manor, which also included Creglingen and the "six main villages" around Marktsteft and Obernbreit , to Margrave Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1448 . The Hohenlohe castles in Weikersheim , Neuenstein and Langenburg , however, were expanded into Hohenlohe residences . After the Brauneck line became extinct, the castle was no longer maintained and was loaned by the margraves to the von Ehenheim / Enheim family until they died out in 1525. The complex was allegedly stormed, looted and burned out during the Peasants' War . It was partly rebuilt later, but the castle had lost its character as a fortress long before that. Since 1448 the lords of Enheim sat as Ansbach feudal bearers in the castle, until 1645 after it died out, the margraves moved in as a settled fiefdom.

The Brauneck ruins around 1820, seen from the east towards the gate

Todays use

After destruction and reconstruction, Brauneck Castle is used as an agricultural business. It is not possible to visit the facility.

investment

The layout of the castle corresponds roughly to a regular rectangle. The mighty shield wall is still visible. The keep with a square floor plan and humpback ashlar masonry is well preserved. The Romanesque castle gate and the remains of the Romanesque, once two-storey chapel with a Romanesque portal can be seen. Overall, Brauneck is an important monument of castle construction from around 1200, which is rather rare in Franconia.

See also

literature

  • Wilhelm Gradmann: Castles and palaces in Hohenlohe . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87181-209-9 , pp. 21-24.
  • Alexander Antonow: Castles of southwest Germany in the 13th and 14th centuries - with special consideration of the shield wall . Konkordia publishing house, Bühl / Baden 1977, ISBN 3-7826-0040-1 , pp. 129-133.

Web links

Commons : Burg Brauneck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Brauneck Castle in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b LEO-BW.de: Brauneck . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved March 23, 2017.