Grüneck Castle (Obereggenen)

Grüneck Castle
Remains of the wall of Grüneck Castle
Alternative name (s):	Obereggenen Castle; Gerneck (?)
Creation time :	13th century, possibly predecessor development
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Wall remains of the residential tower
Place:	Schliengen -Obereggenen
Geographical location	47 ° 46 '13.1 "  N , 7 ° 40' 18.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '13.1 "  N , 7 ° 40' 18.9"  E
Height:	704  m above sea level NN

The castle Grüneck even Gerneck or castle Obereggenen called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on the eponymous mountain northeast of the village Schallsingen that the municipality Schliengen , district Obereggenen, in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg is one.

location

The remains of the former castle are at 704  m above sea level. NN at the foot of the Hochblauen about one kilometer northeast of the village of Schallsingen and about 1.2 kilometers south of the village of Sehringen, which belongs to the municipality of Badenweiler , district Lipburg-Sehringen. The facility is still in the Obereggenen district. and thus in the district of Loerrach . It can be reached on foot in about half an hour from the state road L 132 via well-developed forest paths (Grüneckweg and Oberer Grüneckweg). The last 100 meters lead through bushes and over rocks.

history

No historical data are known about this castle complex; it may be about Gerneck Castle, mentioned in 1272, which was destroyed in 1272 during the war between Count Rudolf von Habsburg and the Bishop of Basel .

The castle could have been built as early as the 10th or 11th century, at that time as a wood-earth structure. It was later rebuilt in stone, following the masonry style of the residential tower during the 13th century. Due to its location and small size, it is believed that the castle was used to protect mining. In the area around Sehringen there are lead galena deposits. In the Middle Ages, the small amount of silver was extracted from the lead gloss.

It may have been owned by the noble lords of Kaltenbach , who had their headquarters in the town of the same name, southeast of Grüneck Castle. They also sat at Bürgeln Castle , later a monastery and then expanded into a castle, possibly also on a previous building of the Sausenburg and possibly on Stockburg Castle .

investment

Only the remains of the wall of a square residential tower with the dimensions of 14 by 16 meters and a wall thickness of two to three meters have survived from the former castle complex. The square was partially leveled and planted with trees before 1900.

literature

• Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 232.
• Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio . Published by the Castle Friends of both Basels on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Klingental printing works, Basel 1981, p. 15.
• Christian Adolf Müller: II. Badenweiler and its surroundings. In: Das Markgräflerland , 1973, special issue Burgen und Schlösser, pp. 24–39; to Grüneck Castle p. 29, with a sketch ( digitized from Freiburg University Library ).
• Josef Durm : Blue ones. In: Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1901, fifth volume - district of Lörrach; Pp. 98-99; on Grüneck, see P. 99 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University Library ).

Web links

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

• Entry on Grüneck in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Grüneck Castle at burgenarchiv.de
• Grüneck - desert at leo-bw.de
• Wüstung Grüneck ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the local lexicon of Baden-Württemberg
• Relief map of Grüneck Castle in the Baden-Württemberg geoportal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ s. Local lexicon of Baden-Württemberg.
2. ^ The chronicle of Mathias of Neuchâtel . The historians of prehistoric Germany 84. Translated by Georg Grandaur. With an introduction by Ludwig Weiland. 3rd edition Leipzig 1912, p. 12 ( digitized version of the MGH , edition from 1899; PDF: 6.7 MB).
3. ↑ Source history: Werner Meyer: Burgen von A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio , S. 15; Gerneck Castle was destroyed by the citizens of the city of Neuchâtel on the Rhine with the help of the Bishop of Basel and belonged to "nobles" from Neuchâtel, who were on the side of the Habsburgs and his allies, Count Heinrich von Freiburg . The Chronicle of Mathias von Neuchâtel names the Sermenzer family, who, along with others, stuck to Habsburg. In 1279 the sale of a property in Schallsingen and Obereggenen by a Jacob called Sermenzer is announced (Johann Christian Sachs: Introduction to the history of the Marggravschaft and the Marggravial old princely house of Baden , Frankfurt and Leipzig 1764, First Part, pp. 408-409 Digitized at Google Books ). Schallsingen is located below Grüneck Castle, so it could have belonged to Sermenzer.
4. ↑ s. Müller p. 29.
5. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - Floor Plan Lexicon , p. 232.
6. ↑ s. Durm p. 99.