Husen Castle
| Husen Castle | ||
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 Husen Castle seen from the west in February 2008 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Castrum Husen | |
| Creation time : | before 1246 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Hausach | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 16 '58.5 " N , 8 ° 10' 3.5" E | |
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The castle Husen is the ruin of a high medieval hilltop castle in the valley of the Kinzig in the Black Forest above the city Hausach in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
history
Presumably the dukes of Zähringen built their first hilltop castle there in the 12th century, which was first mentioned in 1246 as Castrum Husen . It was owned by the Counts of Freiburg . In 1303 the castle came to the Counts of Fürstenberg through the marriage of Verena von Freiburg .
Count Heinrich VI. von Fürstenberg had the castle extensively rebuilt and expanded from 1453 to 1477. A ditch and a fore- bailey protected the actual castle with its palas and keep .
The castle was the residence of the princely bailiffs. In 1632 it burned down and was rebuilt. In 1643 they destroyed Franco-Weimar troops under Count Jean Baptiste Budes de Guébriant .
The ruins were later included in the entrenchments to defend the valley against enemy troops (see also Baroque defenses in the Black Forest ). In 1896 the keep was given a crenellated crown instead of the spire . In 1968 the city of Hausach bought the ruins of the Fürstenberg dynasty.
Parts of the palace wall, the so-called battery tower and the 14-meter high keep, which can be climbed as a viewing tower on the first Sunday of the month in the summer months , have been preserved.
Keep
Hall
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 7 (Offenburg district), Tübingen 1908, pp. 610–614 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- Emil Bischoff: Hausach Castle . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Issue 21: Castles and Palaces of Central Baden , 1934, pp. 400–402 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Karlleopold Hitzfeld : Hausach Castle . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 50th annual volume 1970, pp. 410-421 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Kurt Klein: Hausach Castle . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Volume 64. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , pp. 418–422 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , pp. 32–33.
Web links
- Entry for Hausach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Husen Castle at burgenkunde.at ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Husen Castle at hausach.de.