Hürgerstein Castle

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Hürgerstein Castle
Alternative name (s): Hürgestein
Creation time : probably 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministerialenburg
Construction: Ashlar masonry
Place: Dettingen -Burgholzhöfe
Geographical location 48 ° 36 '11 .6 "  N , 10 ° 9' 34.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 36  '11.6 " N , 10 ° 9' 34.6"  E
Height: 520  m above sea level NN
Hürgerstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hürgerstein Castle

The castle Hürgerstein , also called Hürgestein , is the remainder of an abandoned high medieval hill castle at 520  m above sea level. NN in the district of Dettingen on the edge of the Brenz valley in the Heidenheim district in Baden-Württemberg . It stood near Falkenstein Castle in the Eselsburger Valley .

history

Coat of arms of the Hürgen von Hürgerstein after Gustav Adelbert Seyler

Very little is known about this spur castle , it was probably the seat of the local nobility of Dettingen. The castle name Hürgerstein means: The castle of the Hurger or Hürger , a family with this name is attested in Dettingen, where they owned a fief .

The first mention of the family took place in 1216 with Hurgerus Miles (knight Hürger), together with Heinrich von Güssenburg as a witness in a document in which a dispute between the two monasteries Ellwangen and Kaisheim was settled. Other members of the family were also named later, for example in 1264 with Hedwig von Hürgerstein, in 1328 with Konrad and Ulrich Hürger, who later also called himself Ulrich von Hürgerstein, and between 1344 and 1400 with Konrad and Hans der Hürger.

By marriage the castle came into the possession of Messrs. Schwelher von Wielandstein , 1399 - the castle is mentioned for the first time - Benz the Schwilher then gave the castle to the Counts of Württemberg as a fief.

In 1417/19 the castle was called Burgstall (small castle). In 1429 owned by Heinrich von Validlingen , it was acquired by the Anhausen an der Brenz monastery in 1430 .

literature

  • The district of Heidenheim (published by the Baden-Württemberg regional archive directorate and the district of Heidenheim). Volume I. Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999.
  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 6 - Ostalb: Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 311-316.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 13-14.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The district of Heidenheim (Ed. Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg and district Heidenheim). Volume I. Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 600 [Gerstetten: Geschichte der Stadtteile].
  2. ^ The district of Heidenheim , Volume I, p. 600.