Hammerstein Castle (Southern Black Forest)

Hammerstein Castle
Rock spur near Hammerstein on which the castle ruins stood until the blast in 1913
Creation time :	12th Century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, small remains of the wall
Place:	Wollbach - Hammerstein
Geographical location	47 ° 41 '28.7 "  N , 7 ° 38' 37"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '28.7 "  N , 7 ° 38' 37"  E
Height:	330.7  m above sea level NN

The castle Hammerstein is a Outbound hilltop castle in which to Kandern - Wollbach belonging village Hammerstein in the southern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg district Lörrach .

location

Hammerstein Castle was on a southeastern branch of the Behlen . This rock spur lies in the angle formed by the Kander and the road from Kandertal to Holzen (Feuerbachtal). It is said to have reached the street in the past and rises about 20 meters above the valley floor. The ruin is shown on old maps with an altitude of 330.7 meters.

From the Hammerstein station of the Kandertal Railway, follow the 12th stage of the Black Forest West Trail (western route) towards Wolfsschlucht and Kandern. A steep stone staircase leads to the rock spur.

history

The castle was a defense system to protect a hammer forge . Exact data about the complex are not known, according to the ceramic finds that were found during an excavation by E. Eble in 1958, the castle was inhabited from the beginning of the 12th century to the end of the Middle Ages . The castle complex was blown up in 1913 when a quarry was being built there.

During the excavation, the foundations of a mighty round tower were exposed, it was about eight meters in diameter.

Oral tradition speaks of a secret passage that connected the castle to the Hammersteiner Mühle opposite, and reports from 1958 also mention a narrow, low passage leading from the castle to a neighboring building.

literature

• Andre Gutmann: The castles of the Lords of Röteln, their side line of Rotenberg and their ministeriality. In: Ralf Wagner et al. (Editor), State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg (Editor): Burg Rötteln: Rule between Basel and France . JS Klotz publishing house. Neulingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-948424-60-2 , pp. 29-41; here pp. 38–39
• Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 47: Lörrach and the foreland on the right bank of the Rhine from Basel . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz am Rhein 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0530-3 , pp. 134-135.
• Eugen Eble: The castle in Hammerstein. The results of the archaeological investigations in the spring of 1958. In: Das Markgräflerland, 1958, Issue 2, pp. 70–75, digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
• Eugen Eble: Hammerstein Castle, Ldkrs. Loerrach. In. Badische Fundberichte 1962, pp. 179–182 Digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library
• Christian Adolf Müller: III. From Schliengen up the Rhine into the Kandertal. In: Das Markgräflerland, 1973, special issue Burgen und Schlösser, p. 39–49, here p. 48–49 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
• 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. 16

Web links

• Discover the entry on regional studies online leobw
• Entry on Badische-Seiten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Behlen is a 445 m high elevation surrounded by the core town of Kandern in the north-east and the districts of Riedlingen (north-west), Holzen (south-west) and the Wollbach suburb of Hammerstein (south).
2. ^ Source history: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 47: Lörrach and the foreland on the right bank of the Rhine from Basel , p. 134 f.
3. ↑ Birgit-Cathrin Duval: A secret passage led from the Hammersteiner Mühle to the Brudersloch. In: Fabulous stories and legends from the Kandertal eBook 2014