Duttenberg Castle

Duttenberg Castle
Creation time :	around 800
Castle type :	Höhenburg, location
Conservation status:	Essential parts have been preserved: mansion, wine press house, wall remains, tower foundation
Standing position :	Nobles, commoners
Place:	Bad Friedrichshall - Duttenberg
Geographical location	49 ° 15 '4.8 "  N , 9 ° 11' 54.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '4.8 "  N , 9 ° 11' 54.3"  E

Duttenberg Castle was a manor in Duttenberg , a district of Bad Friedrichshall in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The hilltop castle complex was probably built as a mansion around the year 800, was particularly important in the 14th century and came to the Teutonic Order with associated lands in the 17th century , who sold the complex privately in 1769. The complex to the east of Duttenberg can only be vaguely recognized as a castle area due to its centuries-long use as a farmyard. A stately residential building, an old wine press and the once walled Duttenberg church essentially mark the extent of the former castle area.

history

The district of Duttenberg was first mentioned in 778 as Tutumer marca , the castle as Dudunburc in 798/799. It is assumed that the original settlement was built around 600 in the course of the Frankish conquest on the remains of Roman buildings near the Kreuzkapelle in Duttenberg. Around the year 800 a mansion was built just under a kilometer northeast of it on the edge of the terrain above the Jagsttal , from which the medieval Duttenberg Castle developed, which the Lords of Weinsberg owned in the 14th century and gave fiefs to various nobles, including the 14th century to the lords of Bieringen and in the 15th and 16th centuries to the lords of Wittstatt .

The importance and the former scope of the hill fort can only be guessed at. The castle formed a walled rectangle in the extreme east of the place. To the west of the castle area with the manor house, wine press , farm buildings and the tower, which has been preserved as a stump, is the likewise walled Kilian's Church, and further to the west is the place that was partially walled in the 16th century. The walling of the place goes back to Hans von Sickingen around 1460. Remains of the various walls as well as the trench to the northeast have been preserved.

Wine press (left) and mansion (right) seen from the Jagsttal

After Wittstatt died out in 1586, the successors of the Weinsberg family, the Count Palatinate near Rhine , moved in and gave it to residents of Duttenberg. In 1599 the Teutonic Order came into possession of part of the complex; after the Thirty Years War , the Order was able to acquire the entire complex with 90 acres of associated land in 1668. In 1673 the originally higher mansion was damaged by fire and lost two half-timbered upper floors .

After the Teutonic Order had leased its Duttenberg property to farmers in Duttenberg in the 18th century, divided into 20 hereditary holdings, it sold the manor house to Joseph Reichert in 1769, while the wine press remained with the Order. The Reichert family then passed the farm to the Reichert family in 1860, after whom the castle area is also called the Reißenhof . In the year of the change of ownership, a dilapidated distillery was demolished on the site, around the same time a renaissance bay window on the west facade of the manor house, which had been preserved up to that point, was removed and the building was also given its present-day appearance with the simple, uniform sandstone windows.

• 

  Mansion

• 

  Wine press

literature

• Lothar Hantsch: The castle to Duttenberg. In: Lothar Hantsch (Red.): Bad Friedrichshall 1933–1983. City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 1983, pp. 325–329.

Web links

Commons : Burg Duttenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files