Kreidenstein Castle
| Kreidenstein Castle | ||
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 Western wall remnants of the residential tower |
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| Alternative name (s): | Kreudenstein | |
| Creation time : | around 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains, trench | |
| Standing position : | Counts, clericals | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone masonry | |
| Place: | Beuron | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 2 '57 " N , 8 ° 56' 3" E | |
| Height: | 740 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle chalk stone (old or faulty also Kreudenstein ) is the ruin of a high medieval hilltop castle 600 meters southwest of Reinsfelder court, a once to Beuron belonging domain in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The north of Fridingen at the end of a flattened, rocky mountain spur high above the Bäratal at 740 m above sea level. NN lying Spur castle is located in the immediate vicinity of Burgruine Pfannenstiel , separated by the deep cut of a dry valley.
The district boundary marked by four boundary stones , formerly Württemberg - Hohenzollern state border, runs through the castle grounds. The largest part is located in the district of Beuron and thus belongs to the Sigmaringen district.
The freely accessible castle complex is located at around 740 meters above sea level, the Bäratal at around 640 meters above sea level.
history
Little is known about the fate of the castle and its owners. Oral tradition has it that the neighboring Pfannenstiel Castle was destroyed by fire as a result of a nightly lightning strike. A knight's daughter is said to have died in the fire, who is said to have given a servant the order to drown her younger brother beforehand. However, the servant handed the child over to an old woman in Bäratal. The “brother who grew up to be a decent youth” wanted nothing more to do with Pfannenstiel and is said to have built Kreidenstein Castle on the neighboring rock.
Only from the year 1456 there is information about the Kreidenstein. From 1456 to 1469, Wilhelm von Kreidenstein was provost in the Beuron monastery . Wilhelm came from the Rottweiler patrician family Spretter . After purchasing the castle, they named themselves after this Spretter von Kreidenstein . Furthermore, members of this family were judges at the imperial court. Provost Wilhelm, the last of the Kreidenstein sprinters , bequeathed the castle with all its accessories and the fishing (the right to fish) in the bar to the Beuron monastery. With the secularization in 1803, the Beuron property with the "Burgstall Kreidenstein" went to the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , who still own it today.
description
Only a few remains of the former castle complex have survived. The otherwise typical neck ditch on the mountain side is completely missing. This was not necessary because the outer bailey was built on a natural 3.5-meter-high rock base. To the left of the base is the lower access to the outer bailey and its courtyard in the southwest with the remains of the building. In the north-west of the outer bailey, small remains of the wall were preserved, which suggests the location of a larger building with a cladding visible on the inside as a quarry stone wall. The outer bailey was around 55 meters long and 15 to 20 meters wide.
The relatively small core castle is located in the western part of the castle complex behind a 10 meter wide section ditch . At its narrowest point, the main castle has a few remains of a residential tower with a base area of 5.50 by 8.60 meters. Masonry and rubble are still up to 70 centimeters high. The terrain ends after around 20 meters in steep rocky steps.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Kreidenstein . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3. Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 287-290.
- Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN 0178-3262 , pp. 52 and 165.
