Hohennagold Castle
| Hohennagold Castle | ||
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 Hohennagold ruins, defense tower |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Nagold | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 33 '12 " N , 8 ° 43' 0" E | |
| Height: | 529.8 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Hohennagold Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle in Nagold in Calw in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Geographical location
The ruin stands at 529.8 m above sea level. NHN high Nagolder Schlossberg, a southern spur in the knee of Nagold , which here bends about 135 ° to the north and emerges a few kilometers earlier from the north-eastern Black Forest into the vast cultural landscape of the Gäus northwest of the upper Neckar . Opposite the Schlossberg porphyry rock , its longest and right upper course tributary, the Waldach, flows over 130 m deeper .
history
The original first castle, Hohennagold, was built by the Counts of Nagold ( Count Palatine of Tübingen since 1145 ) around 1100. From 1153 to 1162 the castle complex was greatly expanded. The family of the Counts of Montfort came from the line of the Tübingen Count Palatine .
In the middle of the 13th century the castle passed to the Counts of Hohenberg . A branch of this family called themselves Count von Nagold in the future and expanded the castle into a residence in the 13th and 14th centuries .
In 1363 they sold the castle to the Counts of Württemberg , who added the outer Zwinger with bastions and corner towers , especially in the 15th century, and kept the castle occupied by their servants. In 1645/46 in the Thirty Years War the castle was destroyed.
investment
The foundations of various constructions of the castle core are still in the ruins today . You can also find large parts of the outer bailey with the ruins of fortified towers and the outer bailey's kennel . The keep and the 25 m high defense tower , which can be climbed, have been preserved.
The castle is freely accessible for inspection at any time.
literature
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon. Flechsig / Weidlich, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-8035-1372-3 .
Web links
- Hohennagold Castle on the burgenwelt.org website
- Ruin Hohnagold on the side of the Black Forest Association Nagold
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
- Hohennagold 360 ° panorama with a view of Nagold
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Schlossberg - observation tower (25 m) on the website of the Black Forest Association Nagold eV