Istein Castle

St. Vitus Chapel
	St. Vitus Chapel
Alternative name (s):	Klotz, Isteiner Klotz, castrum is one
Creation time :	1000 to 1100
Castle type :	Höhenburg, rock castle
Conservation status:	Remnants of the wall
Standing position :	Clericals, nobles, counts
Place:	Efringen-Kirchen -Istein
Geographical location	47 ° 39 '47 " N , 7 ° 31' 51" E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '47 " N , 7 ° 31' 51" E

The castle Istein is the ruin of a rock castle on the Isteiner block in the district Istein the town of Efringen-Kirchen in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg . There are only small remains of the wall

history

In the 11th to 12th centuries, the castle was built by the bishops of Basel and first mentioned in 1185 and then again around 1233 as castrum Istein . From 1410 to 1411 the castle was razed by Basel troops . The interim owners of the pledged castle were Jakob von Waldkron, Werner Schaler , the city of Basel , Austria , Burkhart Münch von Landskron der ae. and the younger, the Counts of Freiburg and the Margraves of Sausenberg .

From 1900 to 1914 the castle complex was expanded as a fortress , incorporated into the Siegfried Line from 1936 and blown up after the end of the Second World War in 1945.

St. Vitus Chapel

The St. Vitus Chapel , built around 1100 to 1200, is said to have been one of two original castle chapels , the remains of which are visible from afar in a niche in the steep rock face. The small chapel, which was rebuilt after the castle was destroyed in 1650 and which was in ruins after it was blown up in 1947, was largely rebuilt in the 1980s.

literature

Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas . 3. Edition. Verlag des Südkurier. Constance 1987. ISBN 3-87799-040-1
Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z. Burgenlexikon der Regio . Klingental AG printing and publishing house. Basel 1981
Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
Heiko Wagner: Theiss Castle Guide Upper Rhine. 65 castles from Basel to Karlsruhe . Theiss. Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-8062-1710-6
Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1901, fifth volume - Lörrach district; Pp. 20–21 online

Web links

Commons : Isteiner Klotz - collection of images, videos and audio files

Photos of the castle complex in the 1900 century by Hermann Schäfer
Istein Castle at burgenwelt.de
Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Entry on Istein Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
about the history of Istein on the homepage of the community Efringen-Kirchen district Istein
Veitskapelle at moskito-team.homepage.t-online.de
Efringen-Kirchen Isteiner Klotz Black Forest live, accessed October 21, 2019
The Isteiner Klotz - a rock in the Upper Rhine surf SWR Wissen, accessed October 21, 2019
Istein Castle in Baden-Württemberg Burgenarchiv.de, accessed October 21, 2019