Heimberg Castle (Unterheimbach)

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Heimberg Castle
Alternative name (s): Hellmat ruins, Hellmat Castle
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Castle rest
Construction: Humpback cuboid
Place: Bretzfeld - Unterheimbach
Geographical location 49 ° 8 '22.1 "  N , 9 ° 27' 22.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '22.1 "  N , 9 ° 27' 22.3"  E
Height: 350  m above sea level NN
Heimberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Heimberg Castle

The Burg Heimberg , locally even Burg Hellmat or Burgruine Hellmat called, is the radical of a hill fort on the lock hump of the home mountain ( 350  m above sea level.  NN ), in which Weiler Mr Hölzle the district Unterheimbach the municipality Bretz field in Hohenlohekreis in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle, which was probably built in the 13th century, was the seat of the Lords of Heimberg, who had been occupied since 1253, but they sold it early and some of them came to the Hohenlohe family from Heinrich von Böckingen's widow . Presumably the castle was destroyed after 1344.

The castle area artificially raised a few meters has a diameter of about 50 meters. A neck ditch several meters deep , in which the road leads to the mountain spur today, secured the castle on the south-western attack side and ring ditches secured on the other three sides. Remnants of the wall indicate a curtain wall , a gate and other buildings. The still about 1.8 meters high Bergfriedrest with a rare herringbone pattern ( Opus spicatum ) has an outer circumference of 5.5 by 5.7 meters and an inner circumference of 3.2 by 3.2 meters. In the literature, reference is also made to rectangular brickwork .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Dähn: Unknown Burgenland Löwenstein Mountains . In: Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian History. Volume 29, 1979/1981, ISSN  0175-9841 , pp. 95-116, here pp. 104-105.

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