Fürstenstein Castle (Rietheim-Weilheim)

Fürstenstein Castle
Creation time :	11th or 12th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, valley edge location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Rietheim-Weilheim
Geographical location	48 ° 1 '24.6 "  N , 8 ° 47' 20.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '24.6 "  N , 8 ° 47' 20.8"  E
Height:	877  m above sea level NN

The castle Fürstenstein is a Outbound small high medieval hilltop castle in the town of Rietheim-Weilheim in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Since very little is known about the castle today, the owner and the time of construction are not certain. According to Schmitt, it was built during the 11th or 12th century, Heine dates the castle to the 12th / 13th. Century.

There is also uncertainty about the ownership structure, in older literature it serves as the seat of a branch of the princes of Hirschberg / Konzenberg, who also owned Konzenberg Castle a few kilometers southwest . In addition, they are recorded in Weilheim until 1343. In a land register owned by the Konzenbergers, the castle is the seat of a baron family .

Most likely, however, the castle can be assigned to Bertholdus de Vuristinstein , mentioned in 1211 , a brother of the Reichenau abbot Heinrich von Hohenkarpfen .

The castle name was probably derived from the topographical location: Vuristinstein means foremost stone .

description

The castle site is at 877  m above sea level. NN on the west steep into the approximately 200 meters lower lying valley of the Faulenbach on the sloping valley slope of the Allmend. A rock protruding from this slope with the dimensions of about 25 by 30 meters was separated from the adjoining plateau by an angled base ditch . At the northern and southern ends of this trench, larger spoil heaps can be seen, a sign of the trench's artificial origin.

Only a few remains of the small one-piece castle are preserved today. At the highest point of the complex, about three meters above the adjacent plateau, remains of the core masonry, presumably a tower-shaped building, are visible. As a further building remnant on the terraced castle area, a depression carved out of the rock can be seen, it probably represents the rest of a building basement.

literature

• Günter Schmitt : Fürstenstein . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 333–336.
• Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 92, 149 and 172.

Web links

• Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 92
2. ↑ Source history: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen , p. 335