Kastenbuck Castle

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Kastenbuck Castle
Kastenbuck Castle - Tower Hill

Kastenbuck Castle - Tower Hill

Alternative name (s): Kastenschlössle, Castilhovin
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: Burgstall, trenches
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Herbolzheim -Bleichheim
Geographical location 48 ° 12 '28.3 "  N , 7 ° 50' 38.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '28.3 "  N , 7 ° 50' 38.4"  E
Height: 240  m above sea level NN
Kastenbuck Castle (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Kastenbuck Castle

The Castle Box Buck is an Outbound hilltop castle on 240  m above sea level. NN in the lower area of ​​the northeast slope of the Kirnberg in the "Kastenbuck" corridor not far from the Mattenmühle and the Kirnhalterhof in the Bleichheim district of the city of Herbolzheim in the Emmendingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

Kastenbuck Castle (1879, left)

The Hangburg was possibly the ancestral home of the Meier von Kastenhofen family. It was built in the 12th century, mentioned in 1203 and named again in 1405 as "Castilhovin". In the 19th century the remains of a tower-like building were still visible, as a drawing by Franz Joseph Lederle from 1879 shows.

North-west corner of the former building

The castle was verified by measurements in 1999 on a castle area of ​​60 by 40 meters with a tower hill on the southern corner. It is unlikely that it was a predecessor to the Kirnburg . The tower hill, moats and the contours of a 10 by 20 meter building have been preserved from the former castle complex.

According to a new theory, Kastenbuck Castle could have been a fortified granary .

literature

  • Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz : The castles in medieval Breisgau, 1: Northern part, half volume 1: A – K (= archeology and history. Freiburg research on the first millennium in southwest Germany. Vol. 15). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-7364-X .
  • Heiko Wagner: Theiss Castle Guide Upper Rhine. 66 castles from Basel to Karlsruhe . Theiss, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-8062-1710-6 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the medieval castles in Kastenbuck. Badische Zeitung , January 8, 2000, accessed April 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Badische Zeitung of May 15, 2019 : “So far, the experts assumed that there were two castles on the mountain. The author of a document from the St. Peter monastery mentions a choir hill near Bleichheim in a work called Rotulus Sanpetrinus in 1203 . Historians have long considered this Kastenbuck below the Kirnburg to be an early medieval castle. Meanwhile, Bertram Jenisch and Andreas Haasis-Berner, archaeologists at the State Office for Monument Preservation, are convinced of another theory: The Chornberg was not a castle, but a fortified granary. This is not only supported by the layout and location of the overgrown remains, but also by the word chorn, which means grain or fruit. In addition, two witnesses are named in the document from the year as cellerari , as Kellerer - in the Middle Ages these were the people who were responsible for the supplies. "