Hohenlupfen Castle

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Hohenlupfen Castle
Alternative name (s): Burgrest Hohenlupfen, Lupfen
Creation time : before 1065
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Talheim
Geographical location 48 ° 1 '26 "  N , 8 ° 40' 15.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '26 "  N , 8 ° 40' 15.3"  E
Height: 976.6  m above sea level NHN
Hohenlupfen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hohenlupfen Castle

The castle Hohenlupfen , and Castle Rest Hohenlupfen or Lupfen called, is a medieval castle ruins above Talheim in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

Geographical location

The remains of the former hilltop castle are located on the Zeugenberg Lupfen , also called Hohenlupfen . The Lupfen is 975.5  m above sea level. NHN the highest mountain of the Baaralb ( King of the Baar ).

history

Rhenanus suspects a Roman origin of the castle. He attributes this to the place mentioned in the Ausonius poem "Lupondum", "Lupondunum" or "Luponum", the castle. The 1065 first-mentioned castle Hohenlupfen was family seat of the Earls of Lupfen , one the Swabian Ur needle associated mighty noble family. They acquired in 1251 by inheritance the land county Stühlingen in Klettgau, the rule Hohenhewen and possessions in the Alsace region.

Due to ongoing feuds with the neighboring Counts of Fürstenberg , the Counts of Lupfen sided with the Württembergians against the imperial city of Rottweil, which was allied with the Fürstenbergs, in the town war for the Swabian League of Cities . 1377 stormed Rottweiler troops Württemberg City Tuttlingen , there took Count Eberhard captured by Lupfen and destroyed on the way back the castle Lupfen by razing .

After it was rebuilt, it was finally destroyed again in 1416 by the Rottweilers, this time on behalf of King Sigismund , because of the alliance between the Lords of Lupfen and the Dukes of Austria . The castle stables came to the Lords of Friedingen in 1437 and to the Wuerttembergians in 1444 , who bought the lordship around Lupfen from them.

In 1439, only a few years after the castle passed to the Lords of Friedingen, the line of the Count von Lupfen family died out, the Stühlingen line suffered the same fate in 1562 and their rule came into the possession of the Reichsmarschalls von Pappenheim and later the Fürstenbergers.

description

Only the ramparts and moats have been preserved from the former castle complex . At the presumed location of the square keep there is now an observation tower. The keep measured seven by seven meters in its base. Remains of the enclosing walls with a diameter of 1.2 meters were still preserved in 1791. Today the course of the enclosing wall and that of the moat can only be seen in the floor pattern.

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  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Felix Mundt: Beatus Rhenanus: Rerum Germanicarum libri tres (1531), p. 43