Langenegg Castle

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Langenegg Castle
Langenegg Castle - View of the residential tower

Langenegg Castle - View of the residential tower

Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: Ruin of the residential tower
Standing position : Noble
Construction: Nagelfluh
Place: Waltenhofen- Langenegg
Geographical location 47 ° 36 '55.2 "  N , 10 ° 17' 36.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '55.2 "  N , 10 ° 17' 36.9"  E
Height: 760  m above sea level NHN
Langenegg Castle (Bavaria)
Langenegg Castle

Langenegg Castle is a ruined castle on a wooded hill within a bend in the river Iller in the Martinszell district of the municipality of Waltenhofen in the Bavarian district of Oberallgäu .

history

The main tower of the complex was built around 1250. Over the years , the hilltop castle served three families as their ancestral seat and center of power .

When the lords of Langenegg died out in the male line in 1415, the castle came to the lords of Rauns via the heir's daughter. Before these also died out in the male line, they sold part of the castle complex to the patrician Winter from Kempten, who was related to them . From then on, this was called von Langenegg. After the death of the last lord of Langenegg in 1647, the castle fell back to the liege lord, the prince-abbot of Kempten , who, however, let it fall into disrepair.

From 1734, the facility was converted into a pen-kemptic breeding and poor house. There a nationally known process began in 1775 : Anna Schwegelin , who was imprisoned as a vagabond, was denounced as a witch by a fellow inmate after a quarrel . She was tried before the court of the prince monastery , which ended in a death sentence. However, the sentence was not carried out; the “last witch in Germany” died in 1781 in Kempten prison.

description

Of the buildings of the formerly large castle complex, only the ruins of the rectangular keep , which was later used as a residential tower , have been preserved. On a floor plan of 12.8 by 14.6 meters, its once four storeys and 1.3 to 2 meters thick walls made of Nagelfluh boulder rise .

The tower was structurally secured between 2001 and 2004 and is today a popular destination in the Oberallgäu as a witness from the Middle Ages .

literature

  • Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 .
  • Gerhard Klotz-Warislohner (Ed.): Langenegg - a ruin in the Allgäu. Building history - preservation - use. 1st edition. Arethousa, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-934207-13-4 .
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon. Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 355.
  • Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 1: Castle ruins in the Altlandkreis Kempten and Altlandkreis Sonthofen . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-102-5 , pp. 138-151.

Web links

Commons : Burg Langenegg  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , pp. 359-360 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Langenegg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  3. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles and residential towers of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon , p. 355.