Hossingen Castle

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Hossingen Castle
Hossingen Castle.jpg
Alternative name (s): old spelling Husingen, Hossenburg
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall remains, neck ditch, wall opposite side of the valley reinforced for the last time in 1704
Standing position : Lower nobility
Construction: Small ashlar masonry
Place: Meßstetten - Hossingen
Geographical location 48 ° 11 '1.4 "  N , 8 ° 55' 14.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '1.4 "  N , 8 ° 55' 14.1"  E
Height: 830  m above sea level NN
Hossingen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hossingen Castle

The castle Hossingen , castle Burtel or Hossenburg called, is the residue of a Spur castle on a spur at 830  m above sea level. NN im Tal (short form of local dialect: Burtel) 750 meters southwest (Swabian Albstraße to Unterdigisheim) of the church of Hossingen , a district of Meßstetten in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg . The name could be traced back to Mömpelgard's coat of arms , in red two golden barbels turned away as stakes, "the Counts of Württemberg and Mömpelgard", who have owned the castle since 1418. Local researcher Hermann Krauss considers a derivation from Burgtal to be obvious. A handwritten document from 1521 can be interpreted as a Bardenstein, Burtelstein or Bartenstein.

old Wirtenberg coat of arms 1459, golden barbel often pub sign

description

The castle complex was a spur castle with a core castle and probably a residential tower as well as an outer castle with the dimensions of about 9 by 27 meters. According to the castle researcher Häring, the barns of the farm yard stood behind the two castles. A few remains of the wall and two neck trenches are still preserved from the complex . With the exception of the watchtower, the barriers on the right side of the valley are still completely intact. Until the 20th century, Gräbelesberg Castle was also a Hossingen castle. The right to graze on the castle stables also belonged to Tieringen .

history

Seal of Rudolf von Hohenberg

The castle was built in the first half of the 12th century. The field names Hossenbühl and Hossenhalde are reminiscent of the ministerial family. The lords of the castle were ministerials to the Counts of Hohenberg . In the middle of the 12th century, a Richard von Dotternhausen and his sister Rilinda von "Husingin" were mentioned in documents from the St. Blasien and Reichenbach monasteries. Albert der Hosse is named for 1296 and 1306 and can be traced back to Heinstetten. This is possibly identical to Albrecht von Ozingen (= Hossingen), who is mentioned in a document in the Wald monastery in 1311 . Around 1300 Count Friedrich von Zollern owned land and serfs in Hossingen. 1306 Count Friederich von Zollern renounces his bailiwick right of the Hossengut. Canon Berthold von Dürrwangen bought it for the Beuron monastery. From the family of the lords of the castle, a Burkard von Hossingen worked as a lay brother in Wald Abbey in 1325. Berthold and Konrad von Digisheim as well, their sister Mechthild as abbess until 1329.

In the Hohenberg tax list of 1384, a knight is assessed in Unterdigisheim. In 1486 a Buck von Egk worked in Unterdigisheim. According to the district description from 1961, the owners of the castle should originally have been the Hossen, one of which Albert can be identified in 1296 and 1306 in Heinstetten. Other experts see in Hosse a surname, first name or a reference to a Hossengut of the Heinstetter nobility. Dr Walter Stettner researched the documents of the noble family and reports on the sale of the Hossengut to a Beuron canon. In the 14th century the castle belonged to the County of Hohenberg , in 1345 and 1347 it was sold with Hossingen, Tieringen and Meßstetten to Heinrich von Tierberg . The owner was the Haiterbach line of the Lords von Tierberg.

Coat of arms of the Lords of Tierberg

This means that the Tierbergers have all high and low court rights and become local lords. You are also the owner of the castle. In 1418 Konrad von Hölstein sold Tieringen, Meßstetten and Hossingen to Württemberg, but kept his house in Tieringen. There were no transport costs for the lord of the castle on medieval construction sites. In a surviving stock book from 1560, the lords of the castle have the subjects in Hossingen, Oberdigisheim, Meßstetten and other places drive boards from the sawmill and building materials to the Schalksburg free of charge . The dogs kept in Hossing Castle do not have to be fed by their owners either. Meßstetten, Hossingen and Tieringen ran alternatively for feeders to replace the obligation to feed the dogs of the castle lords. Duke Christoph replaced the forced labor in 1557 with three Schilling Heller tax. In 1565 a Burgsteig from Meßstetten is mentioned.

Occupation by conscript citizens of Hossingen

According to the draft list from 1521, the Hossing militiamen are responsible for securing the castle. Further barriers in the Meßstetter area are at Bschorner Weg (military training area near Kählesbühl), Tobelsteige (after Laufen), Rottweiler Weg ( Lochenpass at the hiking car park) and Eschental (Unter (old subsidiary form Nieder) -Ober- Digisheim ). In the last surviving sample list from 1603, Meßstetten shows the hamlet of Hossingen as a carpenter, four musket shooters, 49 simple shooters, 19 double oilters (armor), 45 simple servants and a carter with two raised monks (draft animals) to secure the locked barriers at the castles Meßstetten and Hossingen . The soldiers are obliged to practice on shooting ranges on Sundays and public holidays. During the Thirty Years War, the population fled into the walls of the town of Ebingen. There soldiers with muskets served in the city guard. The daily wage for such work usually consisted of a loaf of bread. Nettles and snails formed the basic diet of the residents.

Saltpetre for gunpowder was made by saltpetre boilers like Johannes Ammann, who came from Tailfingen, and Johannes Schempp (Salzsieder's son), short for the local dialect of Salvaiter , in a saltpeter works in Meßstetten. Skewers were also made for Ebingen in Meßstetten . The high art of making knife steel for weapons was mastered by most of the local people and was a well-guarded professional secret.

The apartments of the castle crew

The tax list of 1525 shows four farms in Hossingen. A monastery courtyard is mentioned with 37 J arable land and 10.5 mm meadows since 1342. A farm belonged to the saint in Meßstetten. The farmhands lived in the local area in one-storey Seldner houses, lined up like a town, with Ettertor on small allotted wasteland plots. In Oberdigisheim it is called the poor quarter in Frommern Granitz . Seldner houses that were later expanded could be preserved on Eichhalde and Talstraße. This would mean that mentioned in the forecast Wangen actual existing Seldnerhäuser of wage work back verrichtenden craftsmen and servants from the farmyard of the castle. In the list of hearths from 1477, 18 houses with men and 6 servants are mentioned in Nüwenghausen. A document from 1485 in the Sigmaringen State Archives shows that Staimer von Hossingen and Katharina Linsenmann (Linsenma (e) nne) von Margrethausen certify that they married Melchior von Tierberg with the consent of their Junker, to whom the exhibitor is bonded and is a part of. The exhibitors promise that Katharina Linsenmann and the children she had born will comply with any written or verbal request from her Junkers Melchior von Tierberg to return to his rule, as serfs owe and owe their owners.

Water supply

The castle complex was probably supplied with water from barrels from the valley. Old rights allowed cattle to be driven from the pastures on Gräbelesberg into the valleys and the use of water from the heavily pouring springs in the Lautlingen and Laufen districts. The rainwater was collected in a cistern . A wooden pipe (dike) has not yet been found. There are several smaller springs within a radius of 700 meters. In the castle kitchen, sulfur-containing spring water was often used to prepare pulses (peas, beans, lentils). From sources in Oberdigisheim (Weiler Geyerbad, 48 ° 10 '46.36 "  N , 8 ° 52' 38.29"  O ) Nusplingen (Wildbad, Mayenbad) and a source in Egesheim was today Tuttlinger (fluorine 0.61; calcium 222; Magnesium 48.7: Sulphate 577: Hydrogen carbonate 211), Balinger and Haigerlocher Mineralwaters probably have largely identical waters in the castle kitchen.

Agriculture

The lords of the castle practiced agriculture and animal husbandry. In the Ebingen camp book from 1561 an old customs is mentioned. The residents of the castle are exempt from customs duties as citizens of Meßstetten. The residents of other places bought the duty exemption for the Ebinger market. Each head of the household supplied a quarter of grain, the so-called tariff grain. The cheese production attested to and widespread around the Schalksburg is related to the Welsh settlement of the 8th and 9th centuries. Lautlinger cheese enjoyed a certain fame. A third of the arable land was always fallow and used as pasture. In addition to emmer and spelled , oats , barley , rye , hemp , flax , lentils and peas were grown in the following year . Rock flour made from unfired gypsum was used as fertilizer. In addition to rather stony arable land, there is also very fertile soil on site. Pastor Frischlin, father of Nicodemus Frischlin , remarked in a joke in 1548 that there are three and a half elements: air and wind in abundance, wood enough for fire, but not water and stones instead of earth. Junker Hans von Tierberg argues with the pastor Albrecht Baldorff about the use of Hossingen's arable land. Because of the altitude, cold air can only collect on the arable land near Michelfeld and in the Grund. The sales in Rottweil, Tuttlingen, Schaffhausen and Zurich generated decent proceeds. The markets in Ebingen, Nusplingen and Mühlheim were only of local importance compared to Zurich and were not receptive to such large quantities, as can be seen from Duke Eberhard II's list of taxes . The three judges Konrad Stier, Martin Eppler and Melchior Witzemann took on the Thursday before Okuli (3rd Sunday of Lent) 1496 10 pounds of Haller (a coin from Schwäbisch Hall ) taxes and 163 liters of fodder for the Ebingen winery. Of the interest-bearing fiefs 14 pounds Haller, 7 Malter (Ebinger Meß a 325.05 liters) Veesen and 5 Malter Haber . In 1750, the donkey miller bought 130 bushels (1 bushel = 163 liters) of spelled from Meßstetten and Hossingen and had it smuggled across the border into Switzerland. Since 1000 bushels were also bought and smuggled from Hechingen, there was a grain shortage. A warehouse for nightly smuggling is said to have been a cave in the Meßstetter valley. The smuggler's cave ( 48 ° 11 ′ 18.68 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 46.23 ″  E ) can be reached via a narrow path from Freithofstrasse via Kirchlesfels ( 48 ° 11 ′ 1.4 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 44, 8 ″  E ) and Schreifels ( 48 ° 11 ′ 18.64 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 46 ″  E ) can be hiked.

Castle chapel

The castle chapel, like the Hossing St. Nicholas Chapel, first mentioned in 1404, belonged to the Ebingen Martinskirche until the Reformation . The cemetery for Hossingen was located there for a long time. All residents, men and women, young and old, have belonged to Hossingen from time immemorial, dead and alive in the parish of Ebingen. But they are now being provided in 1564 by a pastor in Meßstetten. From Heinstetten from is Totenweg still known today: Panzer Street, Castle Meßstetten and Albabstieg Siebenkreuzlesweg . Old grave fields were found in Hossingen: Graves Bohl TK 25 7819, r. 3494230, h. 5339200. The site is 75 m northwest of the church on the western edge of the town center. According to a report and map from 1891, "very old skeletons ... but so far no inlay" were uncovered there at an unknown point in time. Courtyard from the late 7th century. Graves Ob der Gasse TK 25 7819, r. 3494250, h. 5339410. The site is about 200 m north of the old town center on a southwest slope. In 1957 graves from the Merovingian era were uncovered. Other graves are said to have remained untouched in the ground at the time. Due to the topographical reference to the old town center, these graves are most likely to be the Merovingian burial ground. In 1275 Heinrich von Tieringen was a pastor. In 1360 the Tierbergers donated a year in the Church of St. Lamprecht in Meßstetten, in whose crypt several Tierbergers are buried. One of the controversial religious documents, a letter of indulgence from Avignon, has been preserved from the year 1337 : According to Bishop Paulus Fluginens, those who take part in the altar patronage in the Wolfgang Chapel in the neighboring Altentierberg Castle should be granted a 40-day indulgence of sins.

Reformation around the castle

As early as 1517, Pastor Dieter Rieber preached in Benzingen about the ineffective indulgence trade . The Reformation was suppressed with brutal punishments, especially during the Austrian rule (1519–1534). In 1524 the Duke of Württemberg confessed to the Reformation. The Freiburg doctor Johannes Murer preached the priesthood of all believers on site in peasant clothing as Karsthans . When he was arrested in Balingen in 1523, he confessed that he would rather die than renounce the preaching of God's word. Murer then died as a martyr for the gospel as did those other 45 evangelical peasant war preachers and pastors. The pastor of Oberdigisheim traveled from village to village and called on the population to revolt against the government. A bunch of 1,600 people came together. In 1525 the Meßstetter chaplain German Kopp was expelled from the country. Germanus Kopp joined the rebellious peasants in Meßstetten who marched with Herzog against Balingen in 1525. Their movement was strongly supported by Reformation ideas. The Ebingen chaplain Johannes Hauser called Lusch was imprisoned in the Ebinger tower. He was released on October 29, 1535; he was forbidden to carry the weir. He was only allowed to use a bread knife with a broken tip and an ungodly stick. He later worked as a pastor in Meßstetten and Laufen. In 1551, Pastor Frischlin from Messstetter was a substitute teacher at the Balingen Latin School. When visiting church, he and the students play the song Receive us, Lord, with your word in Martin Luther's version, steer the Pope's murder. The mass priest fled away from the altar in a chasuble to Haigerloch and is said not to have come back. Pastor Frischlin is also considered an expert in botany and the founder of the local medicinal herb production. The County of Hohenberg is considered a refuge for the Anabaptist movement . In 1527, in Rottenburg and in 1530 in Tübingen, Anabaptists were burned to powder as arch heretics.

The town of Ensisheim is also said to have been burned down below Hossingen Castle because of the Anabaptists. Only the mill remained on the bike path in front of Bärenthal. The Mennonites refer to this Anabaptist movement, Michael Sattler , imprisoned in Binsdorf and later executed, is considered to be the co-founder of this free church.

Lichtmess In 1535 the Reformation was introduced in Württemberg. The pastor responsible for Hossingen Castle, Magister Johann Tierberger, initially refused to give up his parish, which his half-brother Hans Konrad von Tierberg, the patronage holder of the Ebingen Martinskirche, had given him. Hans Tierberger was an illegitimate son of Melchior von Tierberg. Hans Tierberger began to study in Freiburg in 1494 and then moved to Tübingen, where he obtained his master's degree in 1500. Since the Tierbergers clung to the old faith, Duke Ulrich no longer wanted to tolerate the pastor. In 1554 an exchange took place: the dukes became patron saints, but ceded the patronage of the Frohnstetter church.

Strategic importance of Hossingen Castle

In the run-up to the Thirty Years' War , the castle and the still completely preserved rampart on the right side of the valley were expanded into a barrage just behind the southern border. The troops already assigned during peacetime (specifically since 1521) had the task of locking in and securing the strategically important crossings. The Schalksburg was one of the most important bases in the country until the Honberg fortress was built in Tuttlingen in 1460. Hossingen Castle belongs to a group of castles belonging to the Tierberg rulership, which, in addition to Meßstetten Castle, consists of the Wildentierberg , Neuentierberg and Altentierberg castles . With its mounted troops, the Hossing Castle can be seen as a barrier in front of it. Under the castle of Nusplingen , Oberdigisheim and across the Reichsstraße , local dialect in Kolbingen 1369: "frigen Strass", from Mühlheim and Tuttlingen . At the top, the Burgsteige once led over the Weichenwang to Meßstetten Castle. There the road is reached, which once went from Ebingen via Meßstetten Castle and from Riedern, which was sold in the 15th century, via the Danube to Lengenfeld . The Werbenfurth, so named in the Werenwager Urbar of 1468 , apparently served as the Danube crossing. In its profile, the approximately four-meter-wide path at Werenwag rises considerably from the flat terrain for no apparent reason and appears to be very elevated in the middle. The old Seestraße trade route leads to Lake Constance. Today, with the exception of the military training area, there are signposted hiking trails. Starting point 1 for hikes: Hausen im Tal train station, parking lot by car ( 48 ° 4 ′ 23.51 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 35.85 ″  E ). Starting point 2 for hikes: Albstadt-Ebingen train station, with the car parking lot on the way to the sand pit ( 48 ° 12 ′ 5.92 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 20.54 ″  E ), or below in the second hairpin bend ( 48 ° 12 ′ 13.9 "  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 12.52"  O ). The ruts of the carts carved into the rock and the seven crosses carved into the rock after an accident can be hiked. Starting point 3 for hikes: Albstadt Laufen or Lautlingen train station. With the Oberbuch car park ( 48 ° 11 ′ 27.17 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 41.67 ″  E ), a junction to Altentierberg Castle is signposted as a hiking trail.

A Roman road (elevated road) coming from Meßstetten leads over the marking Nusplingen, Heidenstadt and ran across the Hardt through the forest districts Hardt and Unterwalden towards Irrendorf . We still have to mention an old road, the so-called "Landsträßle", which probably led from Ebingen over the Weichenwang past Hossingen Castle to Ober-Digisheim, across the Obernheim fields at Burgbühl, past Thanneck and on to Rottweil is of Roman origin.

In the War of the Spanish Succession , Reich Field Marshal Duke Eberhard Ludwig , Field Marshal von Thüngen and Prince Meinrad II von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen decide to strengthen the defenses at Hossing Castle with overburden from the flooring ore mining of nearby mining sites and to integrate them into a modern, continuous line of defense. From Lake Constance via Fridingen ( 48 ° 1 ′ 59.62 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 2.45 ″  E ), the Bäratal to the Lochen , over the Lautlinger and Tannheimer Tal to Zollersteig, then over the Killertal to the Talheimer Steig and further eastward. In April 1704, the digging work was completed.

The escort

To protect against predatory attacks and predators, the escort was set up as a shelf . In 1456 the Ebinger Vogt granted escort to the cities of Constance, Überlingen, Lindau and Pfullendorf in the name of Count von Wirtenberg. After Rottweil 1475 to the stone bridge by the mill in the old town of Rottweiler . Guiding stones marked the borders. From a letter from 1560 it emerges that the Jewish merchants use the streets "hefftig und vill".

The will of a Cologne archbishop

On November 5, 1632, Colonel Hans Michael Rau occupied the adjacent Truchsessisch-Waldburg area with Nusplingen , from Meßstetten in order to put a will into force with military means. On December 4, 1577 the Nusplinger Truchsess Gebhard von Waldburg was elected Archbishop of Cologne. In 1582 the Archbishop of Cologne confessed to the Reformation and married Agnes von Mansfeld . A legend reports that the dark brown, almost black eyes of the pretty Mansfeld woman enchanted and seduced the cleric. He quickly forgot celibacy and met his lover in a remote castle. According to Lutheran teaching , a priest may marry because God's order of creation provides for marriage; a doctrine that forbids marriage is of diabolical origin and therefore to be rejected. According to Wirtenberg's legal opinion, Nusplingen was bequeathed to the Duke of Wirtenberg in a valid will from Gebhard von Waldburg.

The pond below the castle

The defense of the southern border of Württemberg was made easier by a pond dammed up with a Klauser dam, called "Weiherle" in the local dialect. Developments in weapon technology require a change in castle construction. Since the opponent was using firearms, the attacker had to be effectively brought to a stop far outside. According to oral tradition, the water power was used by the water wheel of the sawmill below the castle in the Sägental. In 1384 the property of the App family is assessed in the Hohenberg tax list in the Unterdigisheim district. The Appental is located below the Hossingen Castle.

Mining at the castle

Mining in the Middle Ages in Agricolas De re metallica 1556.

Mining was going on in the area. About the settlements in Celtic times it is written: One of the rich additions according to the very profitable economic foundations of the inhabitants could also have been the iron ore extraction. In addition to the opencast mine to a depth of 15 meters, mining routes were also driven. Fidel Eppler from Lautlingen worked as an ore supervisor , all others mined as self-employed at their own risk and were paid based on the amount of ore. Some sticks followed crevices and caves. Others followed ore seams that often occur in dry valleys . Some pits in the Zollernalb district were more than four ladders deep. A wide corridor was opened below. Women and children were not allowed in. The lighting is done with petroleum. Before starting work, the men stood around the hole and said an Our Father. The washed ore was brought to the smelting works in five carts. On the mountain the wagoners led each other. The money earned was distributed. The community raised tax revenue (bucket money). The iron ore obtained was smelted with charcoal to make wrought iron and spring steel . Almost all firearms forged in Baden-Württemberg were made from high-quality steel from the Harras smelting works at the beginning of industrial rifle production in Oberndorf . Ludwigsthal and Thiergarten . The wooden tubs, which held 240 pounds of floor ore , were rewarded with 14 kreuzers of 25 liters each. A particularly frequent branch of industry was the trucking trade. In addition to the horses for transporting ore, others were kept available in Meßstetten for trips to Switzerland. Ferdinand von Steinbeis succeeded in optimizing the blast furnace process in Ludwigsthal . The sharpened rungs were bought in Tailfingen, for example, and installed by Lautlinger Knappen on the Hörnle. In Lautlingen, an iron content of 30 percent was measured in the iron rye stone. Sharpening, which was common in the Middle Ages, prevented the sprouts from jumping up under overload. Impending failure was heralded by a growing beard on top. Thus, the secret passage in the orally transmitted legend is probably based on actually existing floor ore tunnels.

Dogger ore was also mined in the area for the iron and steel works in Ludwigsthal until 1861 . Restored woods from a 3.5 km long tunnel excavated by Untersteiger Bosch on June 13, 1857 are exhibited in the Tuttlinger Fruchtkasten. The transport of the floor ore from the mining sites or Erzwäschen to the smelters was "largely due to the length and condition of the communication routes between the laundry and the smelter". Often the ore had to be laboriously brought downhill from higher digging pits before a village or a better path was reached. In some places near the quarrying sites, cart tracks can still be found today, which have dug deep into the terrain and testify to the laborious transport of the heavy load. With travel times of up to twelve hours on roads that were not or only inadequately developed, transport could account for up to 50 percent of the total costs, and even more for very long distances. In order to improve profitability, the stone ore was therefore primarily brought from the centrally located Hohenzollern mines to the two domestic smelters. The places on the northern edge of the Swabian Alb, on the other hand, delivered more to the Baden hut in Pforzheim, the eastern and western huts to the Württemberg huts in Schussenried (Biberach district) and Ludwigsthal near Tuttlingen.

Theaters of war near the castle

In 1514 there is a conspiracy against the rulers. The leaders draw a circle. The conspirators join poor Konrad by stabbing . The area around Balingen is one of the centers of the uprising. In the Treaty of Tübingen , the insurgents wrestled the authorities from having a say.

Peasants' War 1525: Right at the beginning of the year the rebels plunder the Schalksburg . The badge of the farmers around Balingen was a black and red flag with a white cross. Oral tradition has it that Hossingen Castle was damaged during the Peasants' War. Kaplan German (us) Kopp in Meßstetten joined the rebellious peasants who marched with Duke Ulrich against Balingen. In the Peasants' War of 1525, the soldiers from Bauernjörg reached the Lochenpass via the Bäratal on February 29th. January 20, 1526: Criminal court in Hüfingen. At the trial, everyone was handed over to the executioner. He tied everyone together and led them to the place of execution. Two had their heads cut off, Count von Fürstenberg and other noblemen ran to the judge and asked them to pardon them for 50 guilders and to promise not to go to any more public taverns. The Evangelical - Lutheran Württemberg was involved in the Thirty Years' War . On February 15, 1632 at midnight there was fighting and looting by imperial horsemen under the Obervogt zu Gutenstein. Several citizens of Meßstetter were fatally wounded. 104 men from the Gutenstein lordship were employed as musketeers , 68 men with double mercenaries . The names of the attackers have been passed down: Captain Andreas Riester, Lieutenant Urban Mors and Feldwebel (Veldwaibel) Wilhelm Barfüeßer. Also on May 20, 1634 and April 30, 1635 there were deaths in Meßstetten. Residents fled behind the walls of Ebingen in 1635. Numerous baptisms and weddings are recorded in the oldest church book in Ebingen. In 1633 there was fighting in Mühlheim and Nusplingen. Truchsess Wilhelm Heinrich reports how on October 16, 1633 Swedish and Württemberg troops passing the castle in Hossingen in the direction of Unterdigisheim plundered, robbed and burned Nusplingen. Everything except two little houses in the city and the one church, including three other housing appliances in the suburbs, laid in the ashes to make a pathetic sight. After the lost battle of Nördlingen, the duke flees to Mömpelgard . In 1635, Meßstetten is given to Count Heinrich von Schlick as a gift. Messstetten has a new local lord for 13 years. From February 20, 1637, the war was also fought by non-military means: girls and widows were married off to Catholic men as much as possible. On January 29, 1641, 20,000 thalers were captured in an attack by the Hohentwielers on Balingen. Konrad Widerhold and the winning team returned to the Adler restaurant in Tuttlingen.

In 1643 the Bavarian Colonel Kreuz came from Tuttlingen on the Reichsstraße past the castle and wanted to spend the night in Ebingen. General Erlach put him to flight and destroyed the Ebingen city fortifications. After a surprise attack on Tuttlingen on November 24, 1643 , Bavarian troops captured numerous French guns. Around 600 men secured the area around Tuttlingen and built palisades and ramparts. In 1645 Konrad Widerhold attacked Tuttlingen and the surrounding area. The last remaining combat troops in Württemberg, stationed at the Hohentwiel Fortress , had the order to destroy all palisades, city gates and barriers. Wuerttemberg troops reach the Ebingen suburb via the Hossinger Castle. During the war, the facility was completely razed .

By April 1704, palisades and ramparts near the castle were reinforced to secure the southern border of Württemberg in the War of the Spanish Succession . In the War of the Spanish Succession (1702/5), according to a plan, the large posting line from Geislingen across the Alb to the Kniebis through the Spaichinger Thal (v. Martens 573. Mone, Zeitschr. 18, 139). The French-Bavarian army could not be stopped by the line of defense and marched into Tuttlingen on May 11, 1704. In 1704 Field Marshal von Thüngen and 8000 soldiers moved across the Bäratal to the Lochenpass. In October 1796 French horsemen suffered damage of 299 guilders and 52 cruisers in Hossingen and in Meßstetten of 3325 guilders and 22 cruisers.

Say

The legends can be called up as ale artifacts under an acoustic cloud at the local history museum in a listening station. Citizens are currently voting for the station.

"City of Wangen"

One knows fabulous memories from places gone. A town of Wangen had disappeared between Hossingen and Meßstetten. Mined clay deposits in this area testify to a manual production.

Approach certificates to cheeks

The place Neu-Wangenhausen (Nüwenghausen) named in 1477 could not be assigned to any other place in the Oberamt. The nuns of Margrethausen awarded lease land in Meßstetten. In 1495 and 1527 the tenants and neighbors of the fiefs are named: Bechthold, Brucker, Decker, Eppler, Hummel, Frick, Fritz, Gaenkinger, Gerstenecker, Gomeringer, Göring, Herter, Jaeck, Kästle, Kienle, Kummer, Landöß, Luippold, Narr , Neefen, Raitlin, Röthlin, Roth, Schick, Schuirer, Vischer (today's spelling: Fischer), Weber. Also Lörin Schörer and Stier. In Oberdigisheim Meyer, Hayni and Schweitzer. Allocation of exact places of residence is only possible to a limited extent via sample lists and church books.

Approach field names to cheeks

The field names of the Weng hilltop in the military training area and Wangen near the Weichenwang radar station are promising.

Approach cards with Zelgen of the three-field economy

Behind the upper Tieringer Zelge to the Gräbelesberg a settlement with three Zelgen in the three-field economy would be possible. During a shooting break in 2013, a group, under supervision, sighted areas not contaminated by ammunition near Kählesbühl in the military training area. The Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Meßstetten was able to determine the old pasture boundaries of the Zelgen. The two hills on the Schlossberg with the presumed castle stables were not seen.

Chance finds in the search area

During the construction of a Kandel (moat), Pastor Oetinger from Messstetter found a bronze kettle and shards in the excavation. Amid the scornful laughter of the construction workers, he secured the finds and placed them in expert hands for analysis. The area was repeatedly hit by robbery excavations around 1850 .

Activities of the State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities in the Search Area

Pastor Alfred Ludwig Oetinger (from 1856 to 1868 pastor in Meßstetten and Hossingen) initially had extensive excavations carried out on his own account, and later on account of the State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities. The chance find was supplemented by systematic re-excavations. The extensive finds of grave goods indicate an early settlement in the area of ​​Wangen below the Weichenwangs. In 1869 it was technically not yet possible to assign the finds to the exact time they were found, which is why the settlements belonging to the graves were assumed to be very large at that time. At that time, a wagon grave with artfully worked wooden parts was assigned to the upper class of a Celtic city that had been destroyed after a short use, according to the legend.

Activities of Apotheker Edelmann in the search area

A grave from the 12th century BC was found in the group of graves in the Gewann Wangen between Meßstetten and Hossingen. Bought exposed by the British Museum in London. Thus a local burial tradition can be assumed here over several centuries.

"Schimmelreiter and Burggarten"

Such a mold rider should also be visible in Hossingen on certain days

An old legend tells of a Schimmelreiter who was visible at certain times and who was on the way to his garden on the Leuzenfelder Wasen.

"The Schimmelreiter's secret love affairs"

An old legend tells of the Schimmelreiter who secretly meets with his lover at the Weichenwang . Sometimes on stormy autumn nights at the old Burtel Castle near Hossingen, of which there are still a few remains, a white horse rider riding across the Weichenwang (Heiligenwang) should become visible. The lovers are a befitting relationship between a noble knight and the daughter of the lord of the castle. Their places of residence are said to be the castles of Hossingen and Tierberg. And now we have come to the time that usually brings with it an important step in life for people, the time of marriage. Life is actually just beginning now, filled with striving for the goals set in advance. The pair of lovers meet first in the evening in the field near the village, later in front of the beloved's house, and finally the "future one" even comes into her house. It often happens that such intercourse lasted for 10 years until marriage. There is no engagement. In 1898, Emil Schweizer incorporated the well-known version of this legend into his article from the Balingen Mountains. An old document offers a vague reference: On July 14, 1327, the noble servant Kunz acquired a castle near Meßstetten from the Lords of Bubenhofen . Was the lord of the castle in Hossing in trouble and had to pledge to the rich lords of Bubenhofen? Was the gray rider Kunz von Neuentierberg and did he buy his parents' castle in Hossingen for his lover? In 1442, the people priest from Meßstetten refused to worship several men because of fornication in the case of recurrence with the maid Gera Trulgestin.

"The Castle Spirit"

Children who do not want to sleep at night are threatened with the "Burggeist Burteless" in addition to the night crows (local dialect "Nachtkrappen"), which actually fly to their sleeping places in the Krappenhalde near the smugglers' cave in the Lautlinger Valley. The Black Verri, a robber captain recalled shortly after his conviction in the Biberach Tower during a lightning strike, is also known as a child fright. "The Burteleß comes and fetches you!" Since 2012, the castle spirit has existed next to the hiking trail to the main castle in a tree stump as a carved work of art.

"Secret passage to the Burggarten"

A secret passage should lead to the Leuzenfelder Wasen. There is a pleasure garden there .

Till Eulenspiegel's doppelganger

It is Peter Schneider from Meßkirch who worked in the area. In Winterlingen, he anesthetized the pastor's chickens and capons during the Sunday service . He was recommended to the pastor as a traveling scholar who understands black art. Unsuspectingly, the clergyman accepted the suggestion and approved the wages of four capons. Good ventilation of the stall, combined with some hocus-pocus, brought life back to the stunned bodies. The four capons were eaten in a happy mood and the priest who was invited also took part in the meal.

Scientific excavations

Excavations took place in 1916. The teacher Bach von Hossingen and his students uncover the foundation walls of the castle. Konrad Albert Koch documents the excavation work. The walls, up to 2 meters high, were recorded with the usual deviations at the time. In order to preserve the ruins, the remains of the wall were completely covered with earth. Konrad Albert Koch succeeded in drawing a complete artistic reconstruction of the facility. The not always uncontroversial artistic reconstruction drawings - to which he wrote, “This is what it probably could have looked like” - have been used with pleasure ever since. A television film is being planned.

From 2008, the measurements were repeated and digitized with significantly greater accuracy by a team led by the Meßstetter castle researcher Franz Josef Häring. A 3D - CAD - Simulation in the West view from the left part of the multipart castle complex is visible on an information board at the castle. In the outer bailey, a second information board on the hiking trail shows the exposed foundation walls of teacher Bach and castle researcher Konrad Albert Koch. A third board is placed behind the drawbridge and shows the castle complex in six views. Research work in the archives was commissioned by the city of Meßstetten to the University of Tübingen in 2017.

Maintenance and security measures

Access via the Hossinger ladder to Hossingen Castle from Lautlingen station

In 2011, the Swabian Alb Association local group Hossingen reconstructed a drawbridge . After all wooden bridges on the cycle path in the Upper Danube Nature Park had to be replaced for safety reasons , a hot-dip galvanized steel bridge with weatherproof larch railing was built. The historical design with smooth planks and without railings is no longer permitted across Europe today. A steep path, designed for sporty hikers, leads through another ditch to the area of ​​the former main tower. Castle researcher Häring created the texts for the information boards with the State Monuments Office. A freely accessible refuge with table and benches was built above the castle in 2014. The hiking trail allow one access. On the masts of each signpost there are UTM coordinates on a small sign, which facilitate rescue in the event of an emergency. After the forest on the Burgstall was removed, tree trunks made of weatherproof Douglas fir and hornbeams planted according to the course of the wall will in future represent the outlines of the castle and the farmyard established by Konrad Albert Koch. Courtyards were created as associated farms after the rise of the hilltop castles. All work was officially approved.

Earlier use of the castle stables and springs

Before the invention of the refrigerators, the Hossingen beer brewers won ice in the moat, which was stored in cellars. These springs were later captured and led in a pipe under the county road to a submarine diesel engine in an underground bunker. From there the water was pumped into the Hossinger and Meßstetter dye works, which had now been closed; today Heubergpassage. In a bomb attack on Nusplingen on January 15, 1945, the water supply on the Heuberg was destroyed. The number of wells (in the towns) is insufficient and so water had to be collected from the Burtel (Ernst Sauter's spelling based on pronunciation: poodle). The normal consumers fetched their water with handcart and appropriate vessels. The farmers, who had horses, fetched the water in barrels and containers.

Today's use of the castle stables

In recent years, not least with the inclusion of funds from the European Union, attempts have been made to make the site a museum. In order to offer half-day tourists an attractive destination, a specialist planner for hiking trails was commissioned to examine the area of ​​the city of Meßstetten. In the Upper Danube Nature Park, there is a synchronized offer in rail transport on all routes on weekends . Railcars operated by the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn operate here on Sundays and public holidays in order to make the local recreation area more attractive for tourism. Three circular hiking trails in the Messstetter districts of Hossinger Hochalbpfad , Felsquellweg Oberdigisheim and Hochalbpfad Tieringer Hörnle meet the requirements of the specialist planner.

The 13.9 kilometer Hossinger Hochalp circular route leads over the Heimberg, Heimberg Hossingen hiking car park, navigation system: Laufener Weg 72469 Meßstetten Hossingen ( 48 ° 12 ′ 6.57 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 2.68 ″  E ) to the Gräbelesberg . On the Höllhütte to Baienfelsen ( 48 ° 11 '30.7 "  N , 8 ° 53' 50.85"  O ) and Spitzfelsen ( 48 ° 11 '17.42 "  N , 8 ° 53' 34.27"  O 's) it over the Oberdigisheimer hamlet Michelfeld past the wall to Hossingen Castle ( 48 ° 11 ′ 1.38 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 14.13 ″  E ) and over the Lerchenbühl to the Hossinger Leiter ( 48 ° 11 ′ 38.71 ″  N , 8 ° 55 '43.95 "  E ). In a certification as a predicate trail of the new circular route already 58 of 40 required points reached. City administration employees advertise at the CMT trade fair in Stuttgart. A land registry survey prevents future fencing. The preservation of the cultural and historical heritage is combined with a special experience of nature. City administration employees advertise at the CMT trade fair in Stuttgart. Without care measures, today's vegetation, with many protected plants, retreats through shading to a very narrow band near the rocks. Civic engagement of the city of Meßstetten, supported by the fire brigade and the Albverein, took care of the maintenance of the biotope. The area is mowed every four years, trees and hedges have been removed, and perennial plants have been left standing.

reachability

From the Albstadt-Lautlingen or -Laufen train station, the Albtrauf near Hossingen can be hiked in the opposite direction of the signposted Hossinger Leiter circular hiking trail ( 48 ° 11 ′ 38.71 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 43.95 ″  E ). There is also a parking lot with eight parking spaces for hikers who arrive by car.

Hazard warnings

After the railings of the Hossingen ladder were largely removed in May 2013 for liability reasons, the risk of accidents has increased, especially when it is wet. Sturdy shoes and a head for heights are required. Inexperienced people and children should consider roping up in the deep, rocky steep slope in front of the first bridge structure. Ferdinand Link from Ebingen warned as early as 1894: More than one stout hiker turned respectfully in the face of the swaying ladder. Unfortunately, the cases are not so rare that careless people who wanted to use the ladder to climb in the night and in fog had to atone for their daring by falling into the depths. Numerous poisonous plants such as yellow monkshood , foxgloves and deadly nightshade thrive on the site .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 279–281.
  • Wilhelm Maute: Forgotten events from five centuries, happened in the city of Ebingen . Silberburg, Tübingen 2000.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 339–346.
  • Hermann Krauss: Local and church history of Meßstetten . Published for the Church's 75th Anniversary, 1988.
  • Walter Stettner: Ebingen. The history of a city in Württemberg . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-4094-6 .
  • Georg Miller: Heimatbuch Nusplingen . Published by the mayor's office of the municipality of Nusplingen. Ernst Glückler Verlag, Hechingen 1985.
  • Werner-Ulrich Deetjen: 700 years of the city of Ebingen. Lectures on history . Publishing house Hermann Daniel, Balingen 1985.
  • Konrad Albert Koch : The castle ruins above the Burtel near Hossingen. In: OA Balingen, sheets of the Swabian Alb Association 28. 1916, pp. 48–54.
  • Kraus: The end of the Junginger »Schweden« schanze In: Zollerheimat 9. 1940.
  • Sauter: Zollerheimat 5 . 1936.
  • Hermann Dreher: Hossingen. In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association 15. 1903.
  • Niethammer: The Alblines. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter 4. 1893.
  • Steimle: Description of a Roman road in the village of Hossingen near Ebingen . 1892.
  • Hartmann Paulus: Description of the Oberamt Balingen . Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau of Württemberg . Kohlhammer Verlag, 1880.
  • Fassbender: Prehistoric and early historical and historical antiquities in the district of Hechingen . Manuscript in the Hohenzoller Heimatbücherei Hechingen, K 9091, undated
  • State Office for Geoinformation and Rural Development : Older working copy of an old land map with distances in feet of Meßstetten with occupations of the owner.

Web links

Commons : Burg Hossingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  99. ↑ Many hiking trails lead over the existing field and forest paths, the new yellow signage is partially attached. According to Section 37.1 of the State Forest Act, the Hossinger Hochalb circular trail is freely accessible to hikers.
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