Kenzingen Castle

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Kenzingen Castle
Kenzingen Castle - Castle hill with "dome castle", in front of it the neck ditch

Kenzingen Castle - Castle hill with "dome castle", in front of it the neck ditch

Creation time : before 1094
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, ditch
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Kenzingen
Geographical location 48 ° 10 '54 "  N , 7 ° 46' 17.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '54 "  N , 7 ° 46' 17.6"  E
Height: 212  m above sea level NN
Kenzingen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Kenzingen Castle

The castle Kenzingen is an Outbound Spur castle on 212  m above sea level. NN in the Gewann Eyerkuchen between the corridor areas "Burgbrunnen" and "Vorm Burgbrunnen" south of the city of Kenzingen in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg .

In 1094 the castle was mentioned as "castrum Cancingen" in the tradition book of the Sankt Georgen monastery in the Black Forest . The castle was owned by the Lords of Kenzingen, who lived in the vicinity of the Zähringer and after the death of Berthold III. moved in the vicinity of the Counts of Nimburg . From 1219 onwards, Lords of Kenzingen appeared as servants for the Üsenberger . The castle hill and the neck moat are still preserved from the former castle complex .

On the castle grounds there is a small stone house with a historically designed stepped gable , which is popularly known as the “dome castle”.

literature

  • Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz : The castles in the medieval Breisgau. Half volume 1. A - K. Northern part . In: archeology and history. Freiburg Research on the First Millennium in Southwest Germany, Volume 14 . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-7364-X , pp. 223-230.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Brather , Dieter Geuenich , Christoph Huth: Historia archaeologica , 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022337-8 , p. 550 ( digitized from Google Books ).