Kirnberg Castle (Bräunlingen)

Kirnberg Castle
Alternative name (s):	Kürnburg, Kirnburg
Creation time :	before 1250
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	small remains of the wall
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Bräunlingen- Unterbränd
Geographical location	47 ° 55 '45.1 "  N , 8 ° 22' 22.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '45.1 "  N , 8 ° 22' 22.4"  E.

The castle Kirnberg , even Kürnburg or Kirn castle called, is the ruin rest a hilltop castle on Kirnbergsee in Bräunlingen -Unterbränd in Schwarzwald-Baar in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The castle, probably built by the Zähringers , was first mentioned in 1250 when Count Heinrich von Fürstenberg transferred it to the Bishop of Strasbourg and immediately received it back as a fief . In 1305 the castle was ceded to the Habsburgs , who gave it again as a fiefdom to the Counts of Fürstenberg . On August 21, 1388, the castle was pledged by the Fürstenbergers to the Count Palatine of Tübingen , and later it came into the possession of the Lords of Lupfen . Around 1416 the castle was burned down by the Fürstenbergers in the course of the Lupfen feud and no longer rebuilt. Only small remains of the wall have survived from the former castle.

Kirnberg Castle, together with the Zindelstein and Warenburg castles, formed a fortress line to protect the roads connecting the Baar and the Breisgau .

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 2, Freiburg i. Br. 1890, p. 9 ( digital copy from Heidelberg University Library ).
• Karl Siegfried Bader : Kürnburg, Zindelstein and Warenburg - bases of the Zähringer rule over Baar and the Black Forest , 1937 ( digitized at breisgau-burgen.de ).
• Heiko Wagner: Zähringer castles on the Baar and in the Black Forest. Between myth and truth. Schau-ins-Land , 133rd year, 2014, pp. 7–20 ( digital copy from Freiburg University Library ).
• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Südkurier publishing house, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 152-155.
• Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 189–193.

Web links

• Kirnberg Castle, Kürnburg at burgenarchiv.de
• Castles in the Bregtal and the surrounding area ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at thz-historia.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Kirnburg in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved October 3, 2019.
2. ↑ Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , p. 154.