Grießen Castle

Grießen Castle
Creation time :	probably 12th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Leftovers in the ground (unsecured)
Standing position :	Ministeriale, noble free
Place:	Klettgau (municipality) - Grießen- "Schloßbühl"
Geographical location	47 ° 37 '28.3 "  N , 8 ° 24' 58.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '28.3 "  N , 8 ° 24' 58.9"  E

The Grießen Castle was a hilltop castle on the Schloßbündten in Grießen , a district of Klettgau in the Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was probably built in the 12th century by the Lords of Grießheim , who are first attested as ministerials and later as noble free. The nobles and knights of Grießen sold them to the knights of Rümlang in 1322 , from whom the lords of Erzingen bought them in 1330 . In 1472 they sold the place (and with it also the castle) to the Counts of Sulz : I Symon von Ertzingen and Heinrich von Ertzingen sin father have sold counts Allwigen and counts Rudelte, the counts of Sulz and landgraves in Cleggöw min of the mentioned Symon of Ertzingen and Friedrichs mines brother's village in Cleggow located with lüt, with good, with court, force, ban and with everything that belonged to us, then our front and we got that from those of Rumlang. Remnants of the wall of the castle are said to be hidden in the lawn, some of which were historically overbuilt. The castle researcher Heinz Voellner concluded that the complex would be abandoned around 1400, as it is later (and still today) mentioned as a castle in the name of "Schloßbühl".

literature

• Heinz Voellner: The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Upper Rhine , 1975

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Matt-Willmatt , Chronik des Kreises Waldshut, 1957, p. 42
2. ↑ Chronicle of the Waldshut District, p. 42
3. ↑ Heinz Voellner, The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Upper Rhine , p. 60