Flyhöhe Castle

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Flyhöhe Castle
Flyhöhe 100711.JPG
Creation time : probably 11th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains
Standing position : probably Ministerialenburg
Place: Blue heroes
Geographical location 49 ° 17 '27.2 "  N , 9 ° 59' 9.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '27.2 "  N , 9 ° 59' 9.6"  E
Height: 475  m above sea level NN
Flyhöhe Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Flyhöhe Castle
Water-filled moat

The castle Flyhöhe is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (Motte) in a farmland and meadows around 1,200 meters southeast of the Protestant Ulrichskirche the community Blaufelden in district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

There is still no documentary mention of the former tower hill castle near Blaufelden , and the original name of the complex or its builder are also completely unknown. According to Alois Schneider, the castle could have been a seat of imperial ministerials at least during the Staufer period . In 1157 a nobleman named Einwich de Bauelden , a local nobleman from Blaufelden, was mentioned in a document from the Schöntal monastery . Even later, noble families von Blaufelden and von Blaubach were named, but none of these families can be clearly associated with the castle. The field name Flyhöhe could possibly be derived from flee or escape. More likely, however, is a reference to the Middle High German word vlins , which stands for pebble or hard stone. The loamy area around the castle site is heavily interspersed with flint stones .

During two excavation cuts carried out by Emil Kost in 1949 on the edge of the central castle hill, ceramic shards were found that Kost dated between the 11th and 14th centuries. He also found traces of a fire. It is uncertain whether the dating of the ceramics at that time can still withstand today's standards, since nothing is known about the whereabouts of the finds. Schneider also cautiously dates the beginnings of the facility to the 11th / 12th, also due to the flat hill filling. Century.

The function of the moth is also unknown, but it could have been in the surveillance of a section of the nearby old road from Würzburg to Ulm , the Kaiserstraße. The road ran along the route of today's federal highway 290.

The castle could have been destroyed during the city war in 1449, when the nearby Blaufelden with its fortified church was conquered and destroyed by the imperial cities. The castle probably also had a farm yard, which, according to reading finds, was located in the vicinity of the complex. The hamlet also fell into desolation in the late Middle Ages .

description

The stable of the former Niederungsburg is located in the midst of agricultural areas on the only slightly sloping northern edge of the Tiefental, which flows west-southwest into the Blaubach valley. The diameter of the entire almost circular complex is about 60 meters and consists of a central core mound, which is surrounded by a moat with an outer wall. A bailey area can no longer be recognized today.

The artificially created core mound has an almost circular floor plan with a diameter of about 32 meters and a height of about two meters. Traces of former buildings can no longer be found on the flat, tree-covered hilltop. This core area can now be reached through a recently built dam through the moat in the north of the facility. This moat surrounds the core hill on all sides and is still up to seven meters wide in the southern half. It is fed by a constantly pouring spring in the eastern part of the trench. On the outside of the trench, a wall was built up as additional protection. Today it has been leveled in the northern area of ​​the castle stables and up to 1.5 meters high in the southern area towards the valley. The outer slope of the wall is towed far in this part. The wall is also lined with trees today.

According to legend, the tower hill was connected underground with another castle stable in the Demutswald, about 650 meters west-southwest of the Flyhöhe. This alleged castle stable is actually a fouled burial mound , a connection can be ruled out.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 25-27.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Source history: Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory , p. 25ff
  2. ↑ Source description: Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory , p. 25ff