Hauenfels Castle
| Hauenfels Castle | ||
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_01.JPG) Building on the Mount of Olives from the east |
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| Creation time : | 1316 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, cave castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Gütighofen | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 55 '8 " N , 7 ° 46' 0" E | |
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The castle Hauenfels was a rock castle in Teufelsküche of Olives near Kind Hofen in Ehrenkirchen in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ).
history
Their history is largely unexplored. It is disputed whether the permanent structure on the Mount of Olives is actually a castle. The name Hauenfels is also based on an incorrect interpretation of the term "Huwensteine", which should be correctly translated as Eulenstein. A possible first mention as the Huwensteine in question, in a toboggan run by the Dinghof and Fronhof in Bollschweil owned by the Ortisei Abbey , is dated to 1316. Finds from the building site indicate a period of use from the 13th to the early 16th century. In the late 1990s, parts of the masonry, such as an upper section of the front wall with a notch-like opening, were the victim of vandalism.
During the Thirty Years' War, the building served as a hiding place for the Dominican Father Michael of the Predigerkloster Freiburg. From there he led a successful guerrilla war against the Swedes in nearby Kirchhofen together with dispersed Austrian soldiers and farmers . The building was later used by robber gangs as a shelter.
investment
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Of the structure built into a slight rock overhang, an approximately 13 m long and up to 1.2 m thick wall section of the south-eastern longitudinal facade, made of mortar-bonded roughly hewn limestone rubble in irregular layers, as well as a 0.75 m thick remnant on the northeast side a clear width of 3.1 m. At its eastern corner, the outer wall reaches an estimated height of 4 m. A beam hole in the front wall suggests an extension of at least two floors. Remnants of a 0.6 m thick inner wall speak for a division into two approximately rectangular rooms. Two muzzle-like openings, which can still be seen in the masonry of the front wall, provided light. A plan sketch by Zuccalmaglio from the 1860s, which shows building details that can no longer be seen today, offers an impression of the structural features.
literature
- Alfons Zettler, Thomas Zotz (ed.): The castles in the medieval Breisgau, southern part: half volume A – K. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-7366-5 , pp. 161-164
- Heiko Wagner: Theiss Burgenführer Oberrhein, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1710-6 , pp. 42–43
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Martin Strotz: "Ehrenstetten (Ehrenkirchen, FR)", in Zettler, Zotz: Castles in medieval Breisgau, southern part: half volume AK, p. 163/164 . The view expressed therein that the wall thickness of 0.75 m, which is too thin, speaks against an interpretation as a castle complex, is not necessarily conclusive. In fact, the front wall is a good 1.1 m thick (H. Wagner, p. 42) . The final measurement by the co-author of this Wikipedia article resulted in a masonry thickness of 1.2 m at the height of the light shaft. According to F.-W. Krahe (castles and residential towers of the German Middle Ages, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2008) also fulfill buildings or permanent houses instead of a castle the criterion of a small castle (Krahe, p.65) . Wall thicknesses of 1 to 1.5 m can be found in 15% of the ring walls of castle complexes (Krahe, p. 21/22) and in 37% of their residential towers (Krahe, p. 118) .
- ↑ See Heiko Wagner, Theiss Burgenführer Oberrhein, p. 43
