First Castle
| First Castle | ||
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 First Castle in Andreas Kieser's forest inventory book , 1683 |
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| Creation time : | around 1075 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Öschingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 24 '56.2 " N , 9 ° 5' 15" E | |
| Height: | 580 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle First is an Outbound hilltop castle situated between the Old Öschingen and the city of Mössingen in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
location
The castle was located northwest of Öschingen on the Firstberg at 580 m above sea level. NN , on which once the lords of Fürst, Fyrst, Virst, had their seat. From their castle, which stood on the now named Schlößlesbuckel, only ditches and walls were left in 1828 , which were overgrown with grass and covered with fruit trees.
history
The small castle was mentioned for the first time in 1075 and was owned by the nobles of First and later owned by Württemberg . According to old drawings in 1683 which was the main castle still from a tower-like palace and a residential building for the servants of the lords. The farm buildings stood in the two-part outer bailey; the main entrance led from the east over three small ditches with bridges to the main castle. Nothing is left of the former castle complex today.
The castle and the land belonging to it changed hands several times over the years and by 1576 it was dilapidated. In 1756 Duke Karl sold the castle to the mayor Wagner and eleven Öschinger citizens. According to the provisions of the sales contract, the buyers had to demolish the castle at that time.
Noble family
The von Fürst family was first mentioned in writing in 1288 and belonged to the lower nobility, many of whom were in the Württemberg service. It is likely that they owned Öschingen; What is certain, however, is that they otherwise had considerable possessions. Around 1075 the brothers Burkard and Hesso von First donated goods to the Hirsau monastery in Schwalldorf . Crafft von Fürst is a witness in the Gönningen sales deed from the year 1300. From this time on, von Fürst appear in a number of documents. In 1473 Conrad von Fürst sold the Hölenstein Castle with the villages of Stetten and Herschwag in Lautertal. In 1514 the city of Tübingen sent Duke Ulrich 500 men under the command of Ernst von Fürst against the rebels in the Rems Valley . This Ernst lived in his own Freyhaus in Tübingen, where his ancestors had lived most of the time. Hans Conrad von Fürst died in Tübingen in 1560. From that time on, the family disappears.
Important representatives of the Fürst family
- Knight Konrad von Fürst († around 1491/1494), owner of the Württemberg fiefdom and 1464–1472 Burgvogt in Tübingen.
- Ernst von Fürst (around 1514), Tübingen bailiff
- Veit von Fürst , imperial governor in Modena
- Wilhelm von Fürst (around 1508), imperial councilor and attorney at law.
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cod. Hirs. Fol. 30 b.
- ↑ Description of the Oberamt Reutlingen. P. 147.
- ↑ Sattler Herz. IS 169.
- ↑ Steinhofer's Chronicle IV. 134.
- ^ Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Description of the Oberamt Rottenburg / Chapter B 17. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1828.
- ^ Christian Pfister: Eberhard im Bart, first Duke of Wirtemberg: from real, largely handwritten, historical sources. H. Laupp, 1822, p. 83.