Hohenburladingen Castle

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Hohenburladingen Castle
Creation time : first half of the 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle ruins, tower stump and wall remains preserved
Standing position : Seat of a presumably noble gender
Construction: Cuboid and small cuboid masonry
Place: Burladingen - "Hochwacht"
Geographical location 48 ° 17 '40.9 "  N , 9 ° 7' 8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '40.9 "  N , 9 ° 7' 8"  E
Height: 895.4  m above sea level NN
Hohenburladingen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hohenburladingen Castle

The castle Hohenburladingen is the ruin of a Spur castle on the 895.4  m above sea level. NN high Hochwacht, about 500 meters north of the city of Burladingen in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

This castle complex, which has not been handed down by name, is called Hohenburladingen on maps, and is probably a castle of the presumably noble lords of Burladingen. Their first castle was in the village itself near the Georgskirche. Later they built several hilltop castles , the Hohenburladingen Castle and the double castle ( Falken ruins ) Vordere Falkenburg or Großer Falken and the rear Falkenburg or Kleiner Falken, one kilometer to the east. Also possibly belonged Castle Azilun to it is located 2.45 km west-north-west.

After evaluating and dating ceramic finds , the castle was probably built in the first half of the 12th century. In 1140 a Konrad von Burladingen was mentioned, in 1174 a Landold von Burladingen, he was a ministerial of the Rechenau monastery . In 1185 a castle chapel was consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul and Johannes Baptista . Possibly this chapel goes back to that of the castle on the Hochwacht, the destruction of the chapel in a feud is also mentioned : “In 1185 the church chapel was consecrated in honor of the princes of the apostles Peter and Paulus and Johannis Baptista, whose anniversary was on the day after Sommerjohannis [ 24. June] was celebrated. The chapel and the altar were destroyed in a Vandal war alone. "

The castle was probably abandoned around the year 1300, possibly also in the course of the 14th century, as the reading finds indicate. The reasons for this are not known. The Burladingen were mentioned several times afterwards, in 1350 Konrad von Burladingen was in the service of the Italian city of Bologna . In 1363 Konrad von Burladingen and Hugo von Melchingen served the city of Siena , they were horsemen in the battle of Torrita.

description

The castle ruins are located on a spur crest, which advances in an easterly direction into the valley of the Fehla or into a small side valley. This crest drops to the south with a steep slope, the east side is protected by a vertical rockfall in which there is also a cave , in the north there is a small rock terrace a few meters below the crest. The attack side in the west goes about 25 meters lower over a mountain saddle into an adjacent plateau. There is no neck ditch , which was usually at the narrowest point.

The maximum of 50 x 25 meters measured castle area is divided into four areas, the east was probably the palace, in the south of the castle keep , on the north side was the courtyard and on the west side there was a kennel-like terrain paragraph.

The field side of the castle in the west is delimited by a semicircular stone wall, it is probably the rest of the polygonal curtain wall . However, there is no evidence of a mortar stone wall. In the northern part of the castle site is a flat area, possibly the former castle courtyard. A larger, leveled area can also be seen at the tip of the spur, where the main residential building, the Palas , could have stood. The clay chunks found there indicate a wooden building with clay wickerwork walls.

At the highest point of the spur dome, in the middle of the south side, stood the keep of the castle. This square tower had a side length of about 6.5 meters. The remainder of the core masonry, which is 1.50 meters high, and the outer cladding with ashlar and small ashlar masonry on its north side have been preserved.

The earlier access to the castle was probably via the rock terrace immediately north of the castle area and led to the castle area at the palas, i.e. at the spur tip.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 119–122.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 224–225.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 161–166.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , p. 61.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research , p. 224
  2. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 122
  3. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 120ff.
  4. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 121ff.