Entenburg Castle

Entenburg Castle
Duck castle
Alternative name (s):	hus to Pforren
Creation time :	before 1471
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	Restored
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Donaueschingen -Pfohren
Geographical location	47 ° 56 '16.1 "  N , 8 ° 33' 7.2"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '16.1 "  N , 8 ° 33' 7.2"  E
Height:	686  m above sea level NN

The castle ducks castle , formerly " hus to Pforren called," is a former moated castle near the Danube in Pfohren , a district of Donaueschingen , in the Black Forest-Baar in Baden-Wuerttemberg . It is located at around 686  m above sea level. NN .

history

reconstruction

Layout

The castle was built before 1471 by Count Heinrich VI. Built by Fürstenberg and mentioned in 1471 as "hus zu Pforren". The most prominent guest was Emperor Maximilian I. Heinrich Hug reports in his chronicle that the name Entenburg should come from the Emperor: ... there he left three days in the castle and gave the castle the name Enthaburg. A second time, namely in 1510, the emperor came to Pfohren and signed a letter on October 23 stating en notre logis de Entbourch . The Fürstenbergers bought Donaueschingen from their widow Barbara von Habsberg in 1488 and preferred Donaueschingen Castle from then on .

From 1567 and 1568 the castle was used as a tithe barn . In 1871 it was completely rebuilt.

The moat is missing from the castle with four corner towers and a square structure . The castle was carefully restored from 1987 to 1989 by Ralf and Anne Röver from Überlingen in close consultation with the Freiburg Monuments Office. As can be seen in the picture above, the duck castle was often depicted with four individual towers. However, it is very debatable whether these four individual towers actually existed. The entire appearance was retained. It is privately owned and previously housed an antiquarian bookshop.

legend

Emperor Charlemagne is said to have perished here on the duck hunt in the swamp and can therefore be heard as Schnufer (Schnaufer) at night. However, he died near Neudingen .

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 2, Freiburg i. Br. 1890, pp. 45–46 ( digitized version from Heidelberg University Library ).
• Erna Huber, Georg Goerlipp: The Entenburg zu Pfohren - Preliminary attempt at a reconstruction . In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar , Volume 28, 1970, pp. 18–33.
• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas . Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 220-22.
• Bernhard Laule, Peter Schmidt-Thomé: The Entenburg. A country residence of Count Heinrich VI. from Fürstenberg . In: Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baar community . Donaueschingen 2001, ISBN 3-00-008750-8 , pp. 51-61.

Web links

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

• Entenburg / Hus zu Pforren at burgenwelt.de
• Back in the Entenburg ( memento from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), suedkurier.de , October 8, 2009.
• Entenburg Castle at badischewanderungen.de.tl

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Roder : Heinrich Hugs Villinger Chronik , 1883, p. 30.
2. ^ Antonia Reichmann: The renovation of the Entenburg in Pfohren . In: Almanach 91, Heimatjahrbuch Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, 15th episode, p. 194.
3. ↑ Johannes Künzig : Schwarzwald Sagen , Paul Zaunert (Ed.), Diederichs Verlag 1930, p. 273.