Immendingen Castle

Immendingen Castle
Alternative name (s):	Burgstall
Creation time :	probably 13th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Immendingen
Geographical location	47 ° 54 '42.6 "  N , 8 ° 44' 16.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '42.6 "  N , 8 ° 44' 16.7"  E

The castle Immendingen , even Burgstall called, is a Outbound hilltop castle on the southern slope of the Höwenegg , 400 meters southwest of the ruins Hewenegg and about 2,900 meters south of the municipality of Immendingen in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was probably built during the 13th century. Further data about the complex are not known, it was probably related to the Hewenegg Castle. After 1917 the site was used as a quarry , which finally destroyed the remains of the castle.

description

According to the castle researcher Konrad Albert Koch , the former castle complex consisted of a rectangular, 20 by 24 meter main castle and a trapezoidal 1500 square meter outer castle .

The 400 square meter core castle, the corners of which pointed roughly in the four cardinal directions, had a rounded corner in the south, the northern corner consisted of a rectangular tower with a base of eight by 8.5 meters. The curtain wall was two to 2.8 meters thick. The two southern sides were protected by a steep slope of the site, the northwest side was a trench , on which the outer bailey follows. A building and two trenches were placed on the north-east side, here and in the south-west there were probably earlier entrances.

The outer bailey, 40 by 48 meters, was also surrounded by a curtain wall and a moat. There was also another tower in the north.

literature

• Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 271.
• 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. 75-76.

Web links

• Immendingen Castle at burgeninventar.de ( Memento from June 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Entry on Burgstall near Immendingen in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance p. 75 f.
2. ↑ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 76