Kalden Castle

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Kalden Castle
Round tower of the Kalden ruin

Round tower of the Kalden ruin

Alternative name (s): New Calden
Creation time : 1515
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Ruin of a gate tower
Standing position : Nobles, clericals
Construction: Mixed masonry, Nagelfluh, brook stones, sandstone
Place: Altusried - Kalden
Geographical location 47 ° 49 '25.8 "  N , 10 ° 12' 0.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '25.8 "  N , 10 ° 12' 0.4"  E
Height: 710  m above sea level NHN
Kalden Castle (Bavaria)
Kalden Castle

The castle Kalden , even New Kalden called, is a ruined castle on 710  m above sea level. NHN north of the Altusried market in the Swabian district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The hilltop castle stood on a large promontory 90 meters above the Iller and was secured to the west by a ravine , while the east side sloped steeply to the Iller. Already in the Middle Ages, geological instability led to rock slides and loss of substance at the Alt-Kalden Castle, mentioned in 1128 and destroyed before 1500 , of which today only a thin line bears witness.

history

There was only a fine line left from Alt-Kalden.

In 1515, a new building was built 300 meters south of the facility, which was now called Neu-Kalden . But this new building was abandoned again in 1692 and finally demolished around 1840 except for a tower fragment. Today there remains a geologically impressive profile of the slipped Burgplatz, which shows gravel in the upper area and sand and marl in the lower area .

For the first time in 1128, a Callindin family appeared who were in Abbey-Kemptic service. In 1384 the castle and the rulership went to the Lords of Rothenstein , then in 1409 by purchase to the powerful Lords of Pappenheim , hereditary marshals of the empire, who three years later sold them back to the Rothensteiners. In 1482 the people of Pappenheim came into possession of the castle again, this time by inheritance. Joachim von Pappenheim built Neu-Kalden Castle in 1515 , which was sold to the Prince Abbey of Kempten in 1692 , but at the same time abandoned due to the threat of landslides. In 1985 the market town of Altusried acquired the ruins.

description

Notice board at the Kalden ruins

A 25 to 30 meter wide neck ditch , which continues at the south-west corner in the Tobel, separated the Burgplatz from the adjoining plateau. Today's ramp-like access to the castle plateau is flanked by a round tower with an outer diameter of around 6 meters, which was renovated in 1977, especially on the northern rear and wall crown. It shows a well-arranged mixed masonry of brook cats (flat rubble stones), Nagelfluh chunks and sandstone quarries , whereby the infill masonry contains broken roof tiles . The inner wall on the first floor consists of brook stones. The east door, which lies outside the curtain wall , is installed as a secondary feature and replaces an older loopholes . The ground floor and first floor were flat and have three slits each. On the side you can see the approximately 4 m high teeth of a circular wall. Further remains of the wall can be found west of the tower. Wall sections running in parallel refer to house-like buildings. Three hundred meters north of the plateau and difficult to reach, there are still the ridge-like edges of the former Alt-Kalden castle with the very last remains of tuff wall .

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Web links

Commons : Burg Kalden  - Collection of images