Laufenburg Castle (Ofterdingen)

Ofteringen Castle
Alternative name (s):	Ofteringen Castle, Ofterdingen Castle
Creation time :	Mid 11th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Laufenburg
Geographical location	47 ° 33 '50.8 "  N , 8 ° 3' 33.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '50.8 "  N , 8 ° 3' 33.5"  E

The Laufenburg or castle Ofteringen isolated as Castle Ofterdingen called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on a small rock from gneiss on the right side of the Rhine above the former little running diagonally across from the train station in Laufenburg in the district of Waldshut ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ). Here is now the war memorial with a monumental eagle of bronze on the warrior rock (once Oftringerfels). Not far from the porch of Rappenstein tunnel ofHochrheinbahn by Johann Belzer . It is not to be confused with the parent castle on the opposite side of the Habsburg-Laufenburg line .

The castle was probably built in the middle of the 11th century by the Lords of Lenzburg and mentioned in 1173. In 1207 the abbess (Bertha?) Of the Säckingen monastery enfeoffed Rudolf II von Habsburg with both castles ( Laufenburg Castle ) for ten pounds of wax (annually) . Later the nobles of Ofteringen , a Habsburg ministerial family , sat here . In 1428 Heinrich von Erzingen acquired the castle. In 1558, the tower above the castle, an approximately 12 meter long residential tower , was mentioned of the already uninhabited castle . In 1567, Ofteringen Castle acquired the cellar of the Säckingen Abbey in Murg and Friedrich Schimpf, the owner of the rear iron hammer in Murg. The Schimpfhalde was named after him . After the castle was demolished, the last remains were removed around 1800.

literature

• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .
• Heinz Völlner: The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Upper Rhine. Publication series Heimat am Hochrhein. Hochrhein-Geschichtsverein (Ed.), 1975.
• Rudolf Metz : Geological regional studies of the Hotzenwald. 1980.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Völlner: The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Upper Rhine. P. 35.
2. ↑ Laufenburg at leo-bw.de
3. ^ Entry on Laufenburg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".