Ehrenberg Castle (Neckar)

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Ehrenberg Castle
Ehrenberg Castle near Heinsheim am Neckar

Ehrenberg Castle near Heinsheim am Neckar

Creation time : around 1100 to 1193
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Ruin (core castle) ;
Preserved or essential parts preserved (outer bailey)
Standing position : Count
Place: Heinsheim
Geographical location 49 ° 16 '2 "  N , 9 ° 8' 47"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '2 "  N , 9 ° 8' 47"  E
Ehrenberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Ehrenberg Castle

Ehrenberg Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle built from the 12th century above Heinsheim am Neckar , which at this point forms a striking ensemble of Burgenstrasse with the historical buildings of Gundelsheim on the opposite bank of the Neckar .

history

The construction of Ehrenberg Castle in the early 12th century is said to go back to the Counts of Lauffen . From 1193 at the latest, Ehrenberg was the home of the Lords of Ehrenberg (also Erenberg or Ernberg), who were Hohenstaufen followers. The grounds of Ehrenberg Castle are therefore directly related to the Hohenstaufen imperial palace in nearby Wimpfen . In the literature, Ehrenberg Castle is also often seen as the upstream Wimpfen defense system. Other sources contradict a dating of the castle in the era of the Counts of Lauffen and consider a building before 1220 to be implausible, but point out that the building history has not been sufficiently researched.

The oldest part of Ehrenberg Castle is the approximately two meter thick curtain wall around the main castle. The buildings of the inner castle date from the 12th and 13th centuries and also have very strong stone foundations. The keep from 1235, which is 50 meters high and is said to have been 10 meters higher, as well as a 15 meter high gable of a building in the inner castle have been preserved to this day. The other main castle buildings can only be guessed through the foundation walls . The strong damage to the castle is said to have resulted from the Thirty Years War . To the core fortress around the 17th and 18th centuries was Vorburg with a 30-meter-high gate tower and residential and farm buildings, the Baroque features have.

A castle chapel of St. Alban from 1602, located south of the curtain wall , is part of the castle .

The von Ehrenberg family died out in the 17th century. After the death of the last Ehrenberger, ownership of the castle, the town of Heinsheim and the nearby Hofgut Zimmerhof fell to the diocese of Worms , whose legal successor was the Landgrave of Hesse in 1803. From this in 1805 the barons von Racknitz acquired the castle and the courtyard.

The outer bailey is still inhabited by the Racknitz family, the ruin of the inner bailey serves as a breeding station for birds of prey. As the castle is privately owned and inhabited, it cannot be visited.

  • View into the inner bailey

  • Keep from 1235

  • Remains of the main castle building

Viticulture

The Heinsheim vineyard of the same name ( single vineyard ), which is part of the Baden wine-growing region, is named after Ehrenberg Castle .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolai Knauer: The castles of the counts of Lauffen in the Neckar valley . In: Christhard Schrenk , Peter Wanner (eds.): Heilbronnica 5 . Sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn 20. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2013, p. 89 ( heilbronn.de [PDF; 2.9 MB ; accessed on February 21, 2014]).
  2. ↑ Dieter Braatz, Ulrich Sauter, Ingo Swoboda: Wine Atlas Germany . 1st edition. Hallwag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0638-4 , pp. 229 .

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