Honberg Castle

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Honberg Castle
Honberg Castle - view from the forecourt

Honberg Castle - view from the forecourt

Creation time : 1460
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Count
Place: Tuttlingen
Geographical location 47 ° 58 '46 "  N , 8 ° 49' 27"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '46 "  N , 8 ° 49' 27"  E
Height: 739  m above sea level NN
Honberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Honberg Castle
Honberg ruin 1911

The Burg Honberg is the ruin of a hilltop castle above the Danube valley (642 m above sea level. NN) to the same Honberg to 739 m above sea level. NN amid the on the Danube located in Baden-Württemberg district town of Tuttlingen . It goes back to a fortress and was never a castle in the strict sense. In the late Middle Ages it was one of the most important Württemberg state fortresses.

history

The Honberg Fortress was built by Count Eberhard im Bart in 1460/1470 . In 1645, during the Thirty Years' War , the complex was destroyed to the ground. The destruction of the fortress was carried out by the crew itself on the orders of Konrad Widerholt , the commandant of the Hohentwiel fortress, in order to protect the city of Tuttlingen from the superior enemy (at least that's what the attack on one of the towers says). Other opinions say that the walls fell into disrepair during the battle of Tuttlingen in 1643. The ruin was further damaged later because the stones were used to build the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Ludwigstal. After the city fire of 1803, many stones were used as building material to rebuild the city. It was not until the 19th century that the two towers of the castle were rebuilt thanks to donations collected by a support association, but not in their original form.

Todays use

Every year in the summer months, the ruins serve as the backdrop for the Tuttlinger Honberg Summer , an open-air festival in the middle of the castle walls. Occasionally the system is also used for other music performances by the local clubs.

On the Honberg there is a transmission tower designed as a steel lattice tower, for which the VHF frequency 101.7 MHz with a power of 1 kW ERP and the VHF frequency 105.4 MHz with a power of 100 W ERP are coordinated.

literature

  • E. Schneider: The Württemberg palaces and fortresses around 1600 . In: Württembergische Vierteljahreshefte . No. 6, 1883, p. 112.
  • Art and antiquity monuments Kingdom of Württemberg. Black Forest District . 1897.
  • Kingdom of Württemberg. Black Forest District . 1905.
  • Konrad Albert Koch: Honberg castle ruins near Tuttlingen . In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . No. 1, 1906.
  • Georg Teufel: The Honberg near Tuttlingen . In. Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . No. 3, 1898, pp. 103-107.
  • Hans-Martin Maurer: The lordly castle in Wirtemberg in the 15th and 16th centuries . 1958.
  • Tuttlinger Heimatblätter 1964: Battle of Tuttlingen 1643 . Special print.
  • Koehler: Tuttlingen. Descriptions and history of this city. 1839 . New publication 1965.
  • Hermann Streng: Cornel . In: Tuttlinger Heimatblätter . 1974.
  • Hermann Streng: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Tuttlingen area . In: Tuttlinger Heimatblätter . 1976.
  • Wilfried Pfefferkorn: Swabian Alb . In: Castles of our country. Volume 1 . J. Fink, Stuttgart 1973. ISBN 3-7718-0134-6 , p. 51.
  • 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 , p. 106.
  • Gerd Dörr: Swabian Alb, castles, palaces, ruins . Image Atlas HB, 1988.
  • Günter Schmitt : Honberg (Hohnberg) . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 345-351.

Web links

Commons : Burg Honberg (Tuttlingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence