Falkenstein Castle (Gerstetten)

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Falkenstein Castle
Falkenstein Castle around 1750

Falkenstein Castle around 1750

Creation time : around 1150
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Dettingen am Albuch
Geographical location 48 ° 36 '4 "  N , 10 ° 9' 44.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '4 "  N , 10 ° 9' 44.9"  E
Height: 510  m above sea level NN
Falkenstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Falkenstein Castle
Parts of the former outer bailey of Falkenstein Castle

The Falkenstein Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the western slope of the Eselsburger valley in Dettingen am Albuch , in the municipality of Gerstetten , in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Geographical location

Today's Burgstall is located in the Brenz valley about 2500 meters south-southwest of the city of Herbrechtingen and about 2700 meters east of Dettingen am Albuch and about one kilometer below the Bindstein mill in Eselsburger Tal towards Eselsburg . The actual Falkenstein Castle was on the head of a 510  m above sea level. NN high rock in the slope of Eselsburger valley, the outer bailey on the western edge of the adjoining plateau towards Dettingen. The remains of the Falkenstein castle complex are in the district of Dettingen.

history

Falkenstein Castle was the focus of a rulership with the name Falkenstein, in the middle of the 12th century a family member with this name - Gotebert von Falkenstein - first became visible in the sources. The lordship came into the possession of the Lords of Faimingen around 1260 and the Speth von Faimingen appeared as owners at the beginning of the 14th century. Falkenstein Castle itself does not appear in the sources until 1331. In 1331 Count Johann I von Helfenstein acquired the castle. About his son Ulrich VI. (the younger) and his daughter Anna, who was married to Duke Friedrich von Teck-Owen, goes to the Dukes of Teck around 1359 Falkenstein . In 1390 Friedrich sold the castle to Albrecht III. from Rechberg to Staufeneck. Finally, in 1592/93, Baron Konrad IV von Rechberg zu Staufeneck sold Falkenstein Castle to Duke Ludwig von Württemberg .

description

The castle layer consisted of main castle - on the rock (see Figure 1750) - and bailey - right off the cliff. The outer bailey was rebuilt in the middle of the 15th century, parts of it still exist and belong to the Falkenstein domain . The castle complex was partly destroyed in the Thirty Years War in 1634, further parts were demolished in 1740 and again in 1818.

literature

  • The district of Heidenheim (published by the Baden-Württemberg regional archive directorate and the district of Heidenheim). Volume I. Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999.
  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 6 - Eastern Alb. Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Verlag Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 317-324.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The district of Heidenheim (Ed. Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg and district Heidenheim). Volume I. Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 598 [Gerstetten: Geschichte der Stadtteile].
  2. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Kerler: History of the Counts of Helfenstein - depicted according to the sources , Ulm, 1840.
  3. ↑ The district of Heidenheim (Ed. Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg and district Heidenheim). Volume I. Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 598-599 [Gerstetten: Geschichte der Stadtteile].