Fürstenstein Castle (Zwingenberg)

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Fürstenstein Castle
Remnants of the house or tower of the almost abandoned Fürstenstein castle ruins

Remnants of the house or tower of the almost abandoned Fürstenstein castle ruins

Creation time : around 1340
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Clericals, counts
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Zwingenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 25 '20.6 "  N , 9 ° 2' 12.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '20.6 "  N , 9 ° 2' 12.2"  E
Height: 265  m above sea level NN
Fürstenstein Castle (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Fürstenstein Castle

The Burg Fiirstenstein is an Outbound Spur castle on a spur in 265 m above sea level of the castle Zwingenberg at the municipality Zwingenberg in Neckar-Odenwald (Baden-Württemberg).

history

The castle was built provocatively by the Archbishop of Mainz between August 1338 and November 1339 , presumably as a counter-castle just a few dozen meters above and near the lower Zwingenberg Castle . The reason for this was the 1338 the Count of Württemberg, Count Palatine Ruprecht I and the Archbishop of Mainz , Heinrich von Virneburg , enforced the right to open Castle Zwingenberg. Fürstenstein Castle had to be razed in December 1343 by royal decree .

description

The former castle complex, which extends over 100 meters on several narrow plateaus, shows only small remains of walls made of small and medium-sized rubble stones .

The castle only consisted of a 12 by 9 meter building, possibly a residential tower , to which a small, walled outer bailey was placed in front of the valley . A neck ditch was dug to the rising mountain slope in the east , in which there is a small square building remainder of unclear function.

On the area to the east of the neck ditch secured by a semicircular ditch and located a little above the castle complex, there are several plateaus that are supported by lining walls. These are interpreted as image positions .

literature

  • Peter W. Sattler, Marion Sattler: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald - A guide to historical sights. Druckhaus Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , p. 157.
  • Rüdiger Lenz: Siege of castles - aristocratic norms of behavior, forms and processes of feuds. In: Der Odenwald 50, 2003, pp. 83–94, here pp. 84f.
  • Thomas Steinmetz: Castles in the Odenwald. Verlag Ellen Schmid, Brensbach 1998, ISBN 3-931529-02-9 , pp. 95-97.
  • Bernd Philipp Schröder: “Just let Hus Furstenstein off!” - On the history of Fürstenstein Castle above Zwingenberg am Neckar. In: Der Odenwald 34, 1987, pp. 22-30.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Grathoff: Mainz Archbishop's Castles: Acquisition and function of castle rule using the example of the Mainz archbishops in the High and Late Middle Ages. Steiner 2005, ISBN 978-351-508-240-2 , p. 71 ff.
  2. ↑ Source description: Thomas Steinmetz: Burgen im Odenwald. P. 96 f.