Hohenegg Castle (Allgäu)

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Hohenegg Castle
Wall remnants and memorial plaque

Wall remnants and memorial plaque

Creation time : around 1171
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Grünenbach - Schüttentobel
Geographical location 47 ° 37 '40.7 "  N , 10 ° 2' 24"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '40.7 "  N , 10 ° 2' 24"  E
Height: 750  m above sea level NN
Hohenegg Castle (Bavaria)
Hohenegg Castle

The Burg Hohenegg is an Outbound Spur castle in Western Allgäu in the 750  m above sea level. NN high Hoheneggerberg above the valley of the Upper Argen called Eistobel . It is located north of the hamlet of Schüttentobel in the municipality of Grünenbach in the Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) in Bavaria .

history

The time when the castle was built is unclear, it was mentioned in 1171 and was owned by the Lords of Rettenberg , who later called themselves Lords of Trauchburg . From around 1240 the castle was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Hohenegg , a side line of the Lords of Trauchberg, who were already considered noble in the 12th and 13th centuries . Rudolf von Trauchberg called himself nobilis vir de Hohenegge in 1244 . Both the Lords of Trauchburg and the Lords of Hohenegg were in the entourage of the Counts of Veringen . The territory near Hohenegg Castle went down in history as the Hohenegg lordship .

In 1359 the Hoheneggians, who had also sat at Vilsegg Castle since 1313 and made it their future seat, sold the Hohenegg lordship with its ancestral castle to Count Wilhelm III. from Montfort-Bregenz . On July 12, 1451, Countess Elisabeth von Montfort-Bregenz sold the castle and rule to Duke Sigmund von Tirol , who in 1456 pledged the castle and rule to the caretaker Kaspar von Laubenberg (resident at Laubenbergerstein Castle ).

The castle was badly damaged around 1525 during the Peasants 'War , was last mentioned in 1559 and left to decay in the Thirty Years' War . In 1730 the rest of the castle was demolished and the stones were used to build a steel mill. In 1805 Hohenegg became part of Bavaria, and in 1898 the ruins were acquired by the Barons von Nostitz.

Only small remnants of the walls of the former 15 by 50 meter castle complex have survived. In the northeast corner of the castle stable is a chapel from 1897.

literature

  • Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 2: Castle ruins in the West Allgäu and in the neighboring Vorarlberg, in the Württemberg Allgäu, in the northern Allgäu around Memmingen, in the northeast Allgäu around Kaufbeuren and Obergünzburg as well as in the eastern Allgäu and in the adjacent Tyrol . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-115-7 , pp. 14-25.
  • Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the Allgäu - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1602-9 , pp. 51-53.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Hohenegg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Bradler: Studies on the history of ministeriality in the Allgäu and in Upper Swabia. Göppingen 1973. p. 244 f.