Frauenberg Castle (Feuerbach)
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 Remains of Frauenberg Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1220 to 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid | |
| Place: | Feuerbach | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 48 '5 " N , 9 ° 9' 33" E | |
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The Castle Frauenberg is a ruin in the district Feuerbach in Stuttgart . The hilltop castle was built in the early 13th century. The central tower was about 20 m high. The small interior - still visible today - served as a prison around 1390. The walls were between 3 and 3.8 m thick. Seven families became co-owners from the end of the 14th century. At the beginning of the 16th century, however, the castle was demolished and it was not until 1971 that the remains of the wall were found, which were secured in 1973 and surrounded by a system.
location
The castle was located on a hill above the village of Fürbach (Feuerbach) in the valley of the same name, and thus controlled the busy trade route between Hohenneuffen and Asperg that ran through the Feuerbach valley .
history
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The Frauenberg Castle was first mentioned in a document on July 1st, 1251. Stonecutter marks on the humpback stones indicate that the castle was built in the Romanesque Staufer period between 1220 and 1250. The first known lord of the castle was Wolfram von Frauenberg.
The simple red and silver coat of arms of the Herren von Frauenberg was also the shield of the coat of arms of the city of Feuerbach (until 1933).
In addition to Feuerbach, the lords of the castle also owned Botnang , Zazenhausen and possessions in Ditzingen and other places. In the late Middle Ages, the property was divided into several female branches: the lords of Helmstatt , the bars of Winterstetten and other aristocratic families. The castle became a Ganerbeburg .
In 1390 or 1391, the two robber barons Wilhelm and Peter von Helmstatt, who lived in the castle, attacked a couple of Cologne merchants who were traveling through the Feuerbach Valley and locked them in the tower dungeon to extort ransom. When the sovereign, Count Eberhard II von Wirtemberg, found out about it, he confiscated the castle, but later gave it back to the castle residents as a fief. With this, the count had secured considerable influence on the previously independent Frauenberg castle, which increased through the sale of individual heirs. In 1481, Count Eberhard im Bart also bought the halves of the castle, the village of Feuerbach and the hamlet of Botnang , which remained in the hereditary possession of the Frauenberg heirs , with the result that the entire rule fell to Württemberg. The brothers Conrad and Bernhard Schenk von Winterstetten were named as the selling hereditary owners of that half , as well as Martin and Eberhardt von Heusenstamm together with their uncle Eucharius von Venningen , the latter their father and grandfather Johann von Venningen , Electoral Palatinate Vitztum in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse had bequeathed this partial property from the inheritance of his wife Adelheid von Frauenberg.
Frauenberg Castle fell into disrepair and was exploited as a quarry, mainly to build the Stuttgart city wall. At the beginning of the 16th century there were no visible remains of the complex.
Despite warnings from the State Monuments Office and the city archive, the Stuttgart City Council drew up a development plan at the end of the 1960s. When the first excavator came up in 1971, you came across Staufer humpback blocks. In a night and fog action, plots of land were exchanged in order to preserve at least the foundation walls of the tower of the castle. These are the only remains of the castle today and can be viewed at the turning point of the street An der Burg .
Web links
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- Gotthilf Kleemann (1895–1982): Feuerbacher Geschichtsblätter No. 14 and No. 15 ; published in the Feuerbacher Zeitung from July 24, 1965 to October 9, 1965. (Original in the Stuttgart City Archives).
Individual evidence
- ^ Landesarchiv zu Karlsruhe, Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, Upper Rhine Historical Commission, Baden Historical Commission, Commission, Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine, Volume 15
- ^ Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger, Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg, with their surroundings
- ↑ Christian Friedrich Sattler: History of the Duchy Würtenberg under the government of the Graven , Volume 4, Tübingen 1768, page 118; Scan from the source, for purchase by Eberhard im Bart, 1481
- ^ Hans-Ulrich Schwarz: The University Maintenance Feuerbach , Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3164440812 , page 25; Scan from the source