Hohenkarpfen Castle

Hohenkarpfen Castle
Aerial view of the Hohenkarpfen castle hill
Alternative name (s):	carp
Creation time :	1000 to 1100
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Leftovers
Standing position :	Nobles, counts
Place:	Hausen ob Verena
Geographical location	48 ° 2 '28 "  N , 8 ° 43' 4.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '28 "  N , 8 ° 43' 4.4"  E
Height:	912.4  m above sea level NHN

The castle Hohenkarpfen , even carp called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the 911.5  m above sea level. NHN high Hohenkarpfen in the municipality of Hausen ob Verena above the municipality of Gunningen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg . The shape of the mountain is reminiscent of the nearby Hegau volcanoes, but the mountain is made of white Jura stone .

history

The lords and knights of Karpfen were mentioned as the builders of the castle in 1050 , the lords of Blumberg as owners in 1382 and the Counts of Lupfen-Stühlingen from the end of the 14th century . From the former two-part castle complex with a triangular outer bailey , main castle and square residential tower , insignificant remains have been preserved. The castle was always an imperial fiefdom and, after the lineage of the Remschinger and Emmershofen family had expired, came to Hans I. von Karpfen, called Wirtenberger, an initially illegitimate son of Count Eberhard im Bart , who then also called himself the Knight of Karpfen. He had the castle repaired and rounded it off with Rietheim Castle and surrounding goods. During the Thirty Years' War, the imperial family destroyed Hohenkarpfen Castle and the town of Hausen ob Verena together with the Villingians. The castle was no longer built.

literature

• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . 1st edition. Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 223-226.
• 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 , pp. 71 and 167.

Web links

Commons : Hohenkarpfen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )