Fürstenberg Castle (Hüfingen)

Fürstenberg Castle
	Castle area on the northwest corner of the Fürstenberg, in the background the Augustinus Chapel, built in 1964
Creation time :	before 1175
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, ramparts, moats
Standing position :	Counts, dukes
Place:	Hüfingen - Fürstenberg
Geographical location	47 ° 53 '26.5 " N , 8 ° 33' 36.4" E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '26.5 " N , 8 ° 33' 36.4" E
Height:	918 m above sea level NN

The Fürstenberg Castle is an Outbound hilltop castle on the Furstenberg 918 m above sea level. NN near the district of Fürstenberg in the city of Hüfingen in the Black Forest-Baar district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Board on site

A castle on the Fürstenberg probably existed from the 12th century. Servants of the Zähringer who were based in Neudingen at the foot of the mountain come into question as builders . First mentioned in writing in 1175, the castle passed from the Counts of Zollern to the Dukes of Zähringen that year . In 1218, Berthold V (1186–1218), the last Zähringen duke, died. His inheritance on the Fürstenberg came from the Counts of Urach who were related to him . Heinrich von Urach († 1284) moved his residence to the Fürstenberg by 1250 and named himself afterwards "Count Heinrich von Fürstenberg ". In addition to the castle, he also had the settlement on the Fürstenberg expanded, which was granted town charter in 1278. At the beginning of the 16th century the castle was rebuilt and the fortifications renewed. In the Peasants' War of 1524/25, insurgents stormed the Fürstenberg. In 1632, during the Thirty Years War , the castle and town were largely destroyed. After the catastrophic fire of 1841, the town of Fürstenberg was rebuilt at the foot of the mountain and is now a district of Hüfingen. In the 19th century at the latest, the remains of the castle complex were also removed. Only the slightest signs of construction have survived from it.

literature

Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .

Heiko Wagner, Bertram Jenisch: The Fürstenberg - Celtic settlement, count's seat, small town. Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart 2011, pp. 49-53.

Paul Revellio : The ancestral castle of the princes of Fürstenberg. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar and the adjacent parts of the country in Donaueschingen . 19. Issue 1933, Donaueschingen 1933, pp. 362–374 (digitized version of the Baarverein)

Franz Xaver Kraus (Ed.): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Descriptive statistics / on behalf of the Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice, Culture and Education and in connection with Josef Durm , Ernst Wagner , Volume 2: District of Villingen. Freiburg i. B. 1890, pp. 26-27 (digital copy from Heidelberg University Library)

August Vetter: The history of the city of Fürstenberg , Volume 9 of the series of publications of the district of Donaueschingen, Rombach, Freiburg i. Brsg. 1959

Web links

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

Wikisource: Topographia Sueviae: Fürstenberg - Sources and full texts

Fürstenberg Castle at alemannische-seiten.de
Flyer Historical Path Fürstenberg: The Fürstenberg - the highest mountain in the Baar (PDF; 886 kB)

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The Fürstenberg from the southwest