Landsehr Castle

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Landsehr Castle
Landsehr Castle moat (September 2012)

Landsehr Castle moat (September 2012)

Creation time : around 1290
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Obrigheim
Geographical location 49 ° 20 '23.5 "  N , 9 ° 5' 41.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '23.5 "  N , 9 ° 5' 41.5"  E
Height: 200  m above sea level NN
Landsehr Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Landsehr Castle

The Burgenland Very is an Outbound Spur castle on 200  m above sea level. NN near Obrigheim am Neckar . The facility, of which only ramparts and ditches testify today, was located about one and a half kilometers south of the center of Obrigheim deep on the spur of the Karlsberg in the acute angle of the mouth of the Luttenbach into the river.

history

The castle was probably built in 1289 or at the beginning of 1290. On March 25, 1290, Raban von Helmstatt gave the Vitzum of the Count Palatine near Rhine an account of expenses that he had made in connection with the construction and equipping of a castle complex near Obrigheim. Apparently, he had previously received funds from the Rhineland Count Palatine. With the construction of the facility not far from the point where an important trunk road crossed the Neckar, the Electoral Palatinate , which until then had only a relatively small territory at the mouth of the Neckar, was able to create a strategically important base in the so-called Reichsland around Wimpfen . Three years later the facility was manned by a castle man .

In 1329 the castle was listed in the so-called house contract of Pavia among the Palatinate castles, with the name Landsehr appearing for the first time. The castle was also mentioned in the Palatinate land partition treaty of 1338. After the Rhineland Count Palatine acquired further rights in Obrigheim and the castle there bit by bit in the course of the 14th century and continued their territorial expansion in the area, they probably gave the grounds on the Karlsberg back in the middle of the 14th century on.

description

A wide and deep ditch separates a hill from the mountainside over the Neckar. There was probably a residential tower there . A kind of outer bailey was connected to the south and east , the area of ​​which is still recognizable today by two ramparts running in parallel. It is possible that this part of the castle was only secured by palisades . The area is 60 to 70 meters above the Neckar.

literature

  • Sebastian Parzer: The transition from Obrigheim to the Electoral Palatinate . In: Obrigheim - yesterday and today . No. 6, 1996, pp. 48-51.
  • Peter W. Sattler, Marion Sattler: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald - A guide to historical sights . Druckhaus Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , p. 178.