Erenstein Castle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erenstein
Tower base of Erenstein Castle

Tower base of Erenstein Castle

Alternative name (s): Ernstein
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Gentry
Place: Züttlingen
Geographical location 49 ° 17 '20 "  N , 9 ° 19' 44.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '20 "  N , 9 ° 19' 44.1"  E
Height: 255  m above sea level NN
Erenstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Erenstein Castle

Erenstein Castle , also called Ernstein , is an old medieval spur castle near Züttlingen , a district of Möckmühl in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The Burgstall is located about 300 meters south of the Züttlingen train station in the upper slope forest on a north-northeast facing 255  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur, which is limited in the north-west by the Jagst running in the opposite direction , in the north-east by the blades of the Ernsteinbach flowing into it and in the east by a steep side blade of the same. The neck ditch is still clearly visible in the area, of the buildings essentially only the tower base and a few isolated parts of the wall have survived.

history

In the High Middle Ages , the castle was the seat of a low-nobility family, who named themselves after them, and were subject to feudal rights to the Lords of Dürn and later the Lords of Weinsberg . The Ernsteiners, first mentioned in 1258, were probably relatives of the early Züttling local nobility and were wealthy there as well as in Schlierstadt , Schefflenz , Helmbund and other places in the area. The castle was owned by a Ganerbeverband , which also included the Lords of Neudeck . When the lords of Ernstein died out, the castle came to the lords of Helmstatt through the marriage of the Ernstein daughters around 1400, and from them to the Rüdt von Bödigheim . The latter sold the castle in 1443 to Konrad von Weinsberg , who at that time also had a Würzburg castle feud there. This is the end of the documentary news about the castle. It may have been destroyed in the city ​​war in 1449. In 1624, the land register reported that only the walls of the castle were preserved.

  • Tower base

  • Wall remains outside the tower base

literature

  • K. Statistisch-Topographischen Bureau (Hrsg.): Description of the Oberamt Neckarsulm. (= Description of the Kingdom of Württemberg. H. 61). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1881, pp. 690-692. ( Digitized at digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  • Frank Buchali: Lexicon of castles and palaces in the Heilbronn district . 5th expanded and revised edition. Self-published, Lehrensteinsfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-007056-3 , pp. 135-138.

Web links

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