Fürsteneck Castle (Butschbach)

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Fürsteneck Castle
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Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Foundation walls
Standing position : Counts, Ministerial, Clerical
Place: Oberkirch - Butschbach
Geographical location 48 ° 31 '35 "  N , 8 ° 3' 36.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '35 "  N , 8 ° 3' 36.7"  E
Height: 278  m above sea level NN
Fürsteneck Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Fürsteneck Castle

The castle Fürsteneck is the ruins of a hilltop castle south of the Rench on a 278 meter high mountain nose at the output of Bottenauer valley in the districts Butsch Bach and Bottenau the municipality Oberkirch in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The castle was built at the end of the 12th century by the Counts of Zähringen and was mentioned in 1225 as "castrum". In 1286 Friedrich and Egino Fürstenberg, Ministerials of King Rudolf I , became lords of the castle. Later the castle came into the possession of the diocese of Strasbourg . Around 1635 the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

The foundations of the former castle complex, of which a large oval courtyard with a residential tower and two outbuildings, a cistern shaft and a curtain wall have been found, are still preserved.

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 203.
  • Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , pp. 77-78.
  • Hans-Martin Pillin: The castle Fürsteneck . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden , Volume 64. Publishing House of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN  0342-1503 , pp. 216-219.
  • 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 .

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