Keppenbach Castle

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Keppenbach Castle
Keppenbach Castle - view from the north

Keppenbach Castle - view from the north

Creation time : 1100 to 1275
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale, nobles
Place: Freiamt -Reichenbach
Geographical location 48 ° 9 '52.9 "  N , 7 ° 55' 0.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '52.9 "  N , 7 ° 55' 0.5"  E
Height: 455.1  m above sea level NHN
Keppenbach Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Keppenbach Castle

The castle Keppenbach is the ruins of a hilltop castle at 455.1  m above sea level. NHN on an elongated mountain spur of the Schlossberg above the hamlet Sägplatz and the Reichenbach district of the Freiamt municipality in the Emmendingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

In 1161 Hartmut von Keppenbach (Hartmuot de Keppenbach) was mentioned as the Zähringer ministerial . The castle became the headquarters of the Lords of Keppenbach . In 1276 the castle was first mentioned in a feudal letter. From 1336 at the latest, Keppenbach Castle was a Ganerbeburg , in which the Schnewlin family also held a share.

After the Keppenbachers had become robber knights , the castle was destroyed in 1396 at the behest of the Habsburgs , who had extended their sphere of influence to the Breisgau and Freiburg im Breisgau . The castle was rebuilt by the lords of Keppenbach - now Habsburg feudal people - at the beginning of the 15th century. In 1525 the castle was destroyed again in the Peasants' War.

description

The former hilltop castle was a small, compact, three-sided shield wall castle , which consisted of an upper, middle and lower castle with a double-bent shield wall that was 2.3 meters thick and 7.5 meters high, surrounded by a neck ditch with a width of about 30 meters. It apparently served to protect the silver mining in the Brettenbachtal . From the former castle complex there are still considerable remains of the main castle wall.

Because the castle not keep having, it is believed that the 70 meters to the north and was 38 meters below the castle standing tower as keep to the plant and with the Vorburg was connected.

Finds from the castle can be viewed in the local history museum in the Ottoschwanden district.

photos

  • Keppenbach Castle, seen from the hamlet of Sägplatz

  • Keppenbach Castle, view from the west

  • Keppenbach Castle, view from the south

  • detail

  • stairway

  • Overview of the plant

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )