Homboll Castle

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Homboll Castle
Alternative name (s): Homburg, Old Castle
Creation time : around 1400
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Hilzingen -Binningen
Geographical location 47 ° 47 '2.8 "  N , 8 ° 45' 50.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '2.8 "  N , 8 ° 45' 50.8"  E
Height: 677.7  m above sea level NHN
Homboll Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Homboll Castle

The castle Homboll even Homburg or Old Castle called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle within the boundaries of the municipality Hilzingen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

Geographical location

The castle is located around 1,500 meters southwest of Weiterdingen west of the Binningen district at 677.7  m above sea level. NHN above the Homboll estate. The Homboll castle hill is overgrown with trees and bushes today.

history

So far there have been many contradicting information about the castle. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1423, but was probably built around 1400. It is said to have been an imperial fief and since 1415 in the possession of the younger line of the von Stoffeln . With Stoffeln's possession, it was owned by the von Hornstein family after 1579 and then finally from 1623 . It is said to have been destroyed during the Thirty Years' War , according to other sources it was already in ruins in 1561.

description

On for about 20 meters towering, rounded hill, a five to seven meters wide foundation that the balance of received the keep interpreted. The castle hill is accessible via a steep ramp on the east side. The summit, with the exception of the south side, is surrounded by remains of walls and moats. Based on the five-meter-high remains of the wall, the area of ​​the former castle complex is estimated at 11 m × 11 m. They have a thickness of up to two and a half meters.

literature

  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (Eds.): Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hegau-Bibliothek, Volume 109 . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-9806273-2-2 , p. 102.
  • Helmut Bender, Karl-Bernhard Knappe, Klauspeter Wilke: Castles in southern Baden . 1st edition. Verlag Karl Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979, ISBN 3-921340-41-1 , p. 64.
  • 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. 74-75.

Web links

  • Entry on Homboll in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Marina Kupferschmid: The hill was once a mansion . In: Südkurier of September 7, 2007