Hewenegg Castle

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Hewenegg Castle
Today a lake has formed where Hewenegg Castle once stood.

Today a lake has formed where Hewenegg Castle once stood.

Alternative name (s): Junghewen, main castle, Höwenegg
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Immendingen - "Höwenegg"
Geographical location 47 ° 54 '51.8 "  N , 8 ° 44' 29.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '51.8 "  N , 8 ° 44' 29.8"  E
Height: 812  m above sea level NHN
Hewenegg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hewenegg Castle

The castle Hewenegg even Junghewen , main castle and Höwenegg called, is a Outbound hilltop castle in Immendingen in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The former Hewenegg Castle was 812  m above sea level. NHN high basalt cone of the " Höwenegg " in Hegau , around 2800 meters southeast of the Church of Immendingen.

400 meters southwest of the castle Hewenegg and 3000 meters south of Immendingen are the castle ruins of the castle remaining Hewenegg , also Postal and Little Castle called designated possible bailey of the castle Hewenegg. However, this was completely destroyed by a quarry.

history

The castle Hewenegg was built during the 13th century and was first mentioned in 1291, as a Rudolf von Hewen the Habsburgs to feud carry it. In 1398 it was pledged to the Duchy of Austria . From 1404 the Counts of Lupfen- Stühlingen are named as owners . The castle must have been destroyed later, because in 1476 it was referred to as the Burgstall, i.e. a castle that had been abandoned. Then it came to the princes of Fürstenberg via the lords of Reischach .

Another destruction took place in 1639 during the Thirty Years War , after which it was largely removed in the 20th century by a quarry.

description

According to the information provided by the castle researcher Konrad Albert Koch , the castle complex consisted of an oval to polygonal base area with dimensions of 70 by 42 meters and an inner area of ​​1700 square meters. The courtyard was divided into two by an internal wall. The former castle gate was in the southwest, another entrance was probably in the north. One building of the complex stood on the west side, of which a cellar was preserved, and another two were on the north side. There was also a trench on the northern slope .

Today, only possible remains of walls and towers have survived on the eastern edge of the mountain peak. Most of the castle complex has been demolished as a result of old basalt mining. At the castle site there is only an 80 meter deep quarry with a lake.

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 271.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , p. 76.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - Floor Plan Lexicon , p. 271.
  2. ↑ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 76.
  3. ^ Entry on Hewenegg in the private database "Alle Burgen".