Hörnle Castle

Hörnle Castle
Creation time :	12th Century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Wutach- EWattingen
Geographical location	47 ° 51 '5 "  N , 8 ° 26' 19.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '5 "  N , 8 ° 26' 19.3"  E
Height:	660  m above sea level NN

The castle Hörnle is a Outbound Spur castle on 660  m above sea level. NN north of Ewattingen, a district of the municipality of Wutach in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The construction of the castle could have been initiated by the St. Gallen monastery . Later took highwaymen the castle as a shelter to 1370 Schaffhausen to end a anheuerten merchants of Rüdiger and Eberhard mentioned in Thurn multitude, which destroyed the castle to the raids. In 1432, when the Blumegg estate was sold, Hörnle Castle was referred to as "Burgstall".

Only traces of the terrain have remained of the former castle complex about 90 meters above the Wutach Gorge .

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus (Ed.): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Volume 3: Waldshut district. Freiburg i. Br. 1892, p. 11 ( digital copy from Heidelberg University Library ).
• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , p. 277.
• Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 85-88.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ewattingen - old community ~ part of town. leo-bw.de , accessed on July 7, 2020 . 
2. ^ Albert abbreviation : Reichsherrschaft Bonndorf. Historical description , Freiburg i. Br. 1861, pp. 152-153. ( Digitized version ).