Kenzingen Castle
Kenzingen Castle | ||
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Kenzingen Castle - Castle hill with "dome castle", in front of it the neck ditch |
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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 | |
Height: | 212 m above sea level NN | |
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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
- Entry about Kenzingen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Kenzingen Castle at alemannische-seiten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Brather , Dieter Geuenich , Christoph Huth: Historia archaeologica , 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022337-8 , p. 550 ( digitized from Google Books ).