Laubegg Castle (Bodman-Ludwigshafen)

Laubegg Castle
Creation time :	Second half of the 12th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, remains of a wall
Standing position :	Niederadelssitz
Place:	Bodman-Ludwigshafen - Unter-Laubegg - "Homberg"
Geographical location	47 ° 50 '22.4 "  N , 9 ° 3' 56.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '22.4 "  N , 9 ° 3' 56.3"  E
Height:	570  m above sea level NHN

The castle Laubegg is an Outbound hilltop castle on the Homberg, 2300 meters north-northeast of the Catholic parish church of St. Otmar the district Ludwigshafen the municipality of Bodman-Ludwigshafen in Württemberg Baden- Konstanz district .

history

The castle, built during the second half of the 12th century , was the seat of the lower aristocratic family of the lords of Laubegg, named between 1198 and the middle of the 14th century . During the 14th century, the Laubegg estates and farms, and thus the castle itself, passed to the Lords of Hohenfels. The property later passed from them to the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Überlingen . The castle probably existed until the 14th / 15th centuries. Century, a remnant of a cup tile found from the northeast corner of the castle site is dated to this time.

description

The 600 square meter and around 570  m above sea level. The castle site, located at NHN Höhe, is located on a spur-like foothill that extends from the western flank of the Homberg and faces north-northwest. The edges of the gently sloping castle surface are artificially steeped and fall steeply down to the valley, in the west to that of the Rickenbach , in the north and east to that of a small tributary stream. On the east side and on the north narrow side of the castle plateau, a terrace is placed at the foot of the respective slope edge. In the south of the castle site the terrain rises to 630.8  m above sea level. NHN high secondary peaks of Homberg and was therefore poorly protected by nature. To protect the castle complex, an approximately 12-meter-long, eight-meter-deep and up to 17-meter-wide neck ditch was created on this side as an obstacle to the approach. This bottom trench runs from east-northeast to west-southwest, at both ends you can see an overburden hill. The ditch, through which a recently laid forest path leads, was disturbed during its construction, especially on the slopes in the middle area.

On the 35 meter long, 12 meter wide castle site, which widens to 20 meters towards the Spornspitze in the north, there are still traces of former buildings. In the northwest area of ​​the castle plateau there is a 0.5 meter high and 7 × 15 meter high elevation, in it two small funnel pits, which still have rubble walls at their edges. These are probably the remains of a larger building from the earlier castle. In the south of the castle plateau, directly bordering the Halsgraben, and here also slightly disturbed by the construction of the forest path, there are two ramparts running roughly parallel to the Halsgraben, separated by a channel, probably also the remains of a building. The castle area is also heavily ransacked. The earlier entrance to the castle may have been via the terrace on the east side of the castle site, around 1820 an archway and other masonry were preserved.

literature

• Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 56 and 162.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source history: Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 56
2. ^ Source description: Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , pp. 56 and 162