Gromberg Castle

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Gromberg Castle
Remnants of the wall of the tower base of the keep

Remnants of the wall of the tower base of the keep

Alternative name (s): Gruwenberg, Grünberg
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, remains of walls, moat
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Lauchheim
Geographical location 48 ° 52 '52.1 "  N , 10 ° 15' 45.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '52.1 "  N , 10 ° 15' 45.5"  E
Gromberg Castle (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Gromberg Castle

The castle Gromberg even Gruwenberg or Grünberg called, is an Outbound Spur castle in a forest 1000 meters northeast of the city Lauchheim in Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was the ancestral castle of the Lords of Gromberg (mentioned in a document from 1235 to 1518), who in the early Middle Ages had extensive property below the Kapfenburg, on the Härtsfeld and in the Nördlinger Ries as followers of the Staufers , later the Counts of Oettingen . These included several castles and patronage rights of the Lauchheim church with associated chaplains Westhausen, Lippach and Westerhofen as well as the church in Waldhausen. Eberhard von Gromberg ("Gruwenberg") was mentioned around 1250 as the castle man of the Kapfenburg. Another Eberhard von Gromberg was mentioned in 1359 as the owner of Schönberg Castle .

Gromberg Castle, like the Kapfenburg opposite and Königsbühl Castle , 800 meters to the east , of which only the remains of the earthworks remain, was used to monitor the ancient trade route from the Remstal into the Ries, today federal road 29 . It was sold to Pfahlheim in 1378 and was last owned by the German Order of Kapfenburg as a ruin .

From the castle there are still moats , small remains of walls and a small part of the tower base of the keep .

  • Ground plan of the former castle

  • Part of the moat

  • Coat of arms of the Lords of Gromberg after the New Siebmacher (1911)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Information board at the castle complex