Herwartstein Castle

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Herwartstein Castle
Remains of Herwartstein Castle

Remains of Herwartstein Castle

Creation time : around 1050
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, remains of walls, moat
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Construction: Small cuboid, cuboid and hump cuboid masonry
Place: Koenigsbronn
Geographical location 48 ° 44 '3.5 "  N , 10 ° 6' 58"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '3.5 "  N , 10 ° 6' 58"  E
Height: 570  m above sea level NN
Herwartstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Herwartstein Castle

The castle Herwartstein is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 570  m above sea level. NN high Herwartstein above the Brenz south of the municipality of Königsbronn in the Heidenheim district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

In the 11th century, the early Staufers built a stone castle on the Herwartstein for the first time. The Ministeriale Herbort was used as an administrator by the Hohenstaufen owner.

The name Burg Herwartstein is mentioned for the first time in 1240 in the fiefdom of the Reichsschenken von Winterstetten, then comes into the possession of the Counts of Helfenstein and is captured by the troops of the Habsburg King Rudolf I in 1287 and badly damaged. The rule of the castle is withdrawn from the Helfensteiners and the administration is transferred to the Counts of Öttingen.

In 1302 the castle was sold to King Albrecht I , who in 1303 founded the Cistercian monastery in Königsbronn ("Fons Regis"). In 1310 the castle was demolished and the material used to build the monastery.

The foundation walls were excavated in the 20th century . The Herwartstein ruin has been a sight on the Staufer road since 1997 .

  • Herwartstein - the rock spur on which the castle stood

  • Little Herwartstein

  • Site plan of the former castle

  • Attempt to reconstruct the castle

View from Herwartstein to Königsbronn

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 6 Eastern Alb. Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 261-266.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information board on the ruin
  2. ↑ Straße der Staufer on stauferstelen.de. Retrieved July 10, 2016.