Klingenberg Castle (Talheim)

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Klingenberg ruins
Burgstall Klingenberg-2399-HDR.jpg
Alternative name (s): Reiffenberg Castle
Creation time : Second half of the 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: Ramparts and ditches
Place: Talheim - "Reifenberg"
Geographical location 48 ° 0 '9.6 "  N , 8 ° 41' 4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '9.6 "  N , 8 ° 41' 4"  E
Height: 799.7  m above sea level NN
Klingenberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Klingenberg Castle

The former Klingenberg Castle , whose historical name was Reiffenberg , is the stable of a hilltop castle on the Reifenberg, 1960 meters south-east of the church of Talheim in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

On the K 5944 east of Talheim at "Unterer Mühle" there is an underpass under the B 523. At the forest, follow the eastern path over the Reifenberg towards the west. Shortly after a cut with a brook, the path turns north. There the ruins are located at 799.7  m, around 40 meters east of the path in the forest.
Today ramparts and moats still exist from the former castle complex .

history

Reiffenberg Castle, built during the second half of the 13th century, the castle name Klingenberg is not historically documented, was the seat of the Lords of Reiffenberg named after the castle and mentioned between 1268 and 1395. They were servants of the barons von Wartenberg and those of the Fürstenbergers . The Reiffenberg settlement, which has now disappeared, was located below the castle complex. The castle, which was presumably sold before the middle of the 14th century, was sold in 1437 as the "Burgstall" including accessories by the Counts of Lupfen to Heinrich and Rudolf von Friedingen. In 1444 it was owned by Württemberg . Around the year 1600 it was called again as Burgstall.

description

The roughly square, around 25 × 28 meters large and about 700 square meters measuring castle site is 799.7  m above sea level. NN height on a small ledge in the lower slope area on the northeast corner of the tire mountain. The east side of the castle plateau drops steeply to the valley of the Krähenbach , on the remaining sides the terrain rises to 947.6  m above sea level. NN high summit of the tire mountain, and was poorly protected here by nature. To protect the castle complex , a U-shaped ditch up to 20 meters wide and nine meters deep was created on these sides as an approach obstacle.

On the castle plateau, some remains of former buildings can still be seen, on the western side, which is most endangered by the elevation of the foreland, there was a probably trapezoidal or square, tower-shaped building. This building had a side length of nine to ten meters and an internal area of ​​probably around 30 to 35 square meters. In addition, traces of other buildings have been preserved, including a circular wall in the form of ramparts running around the edges of the castle plateau. The earlier access to the castle was probably near the tower. There are no known readings from the castle complex, apart from the remains of bricks.

photos

  • dig

  • Stone in the ditch

  • Rest of the curtain wall

  • Rest of the curtain wall

  • On the castle stables

literature

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Klingenberg (Talheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Source history: Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 105
  2. ^ Source history: Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , pp. 105 and 156