Limburg Castle (Baden)

Limburg Castle
Limburg Castle from the west
Alternative name (s):	Limpurg
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Nobles, counts
Place:	Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl- Limberg
Geographical location	48 ° 8 '54.5 "  N , 7 ° 36' 7.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '54.5 "  N , 7 ° 36' 7.6"  E
Height:	272  m above sea level NN

Archway in the east of the complex

Cellar vault

Keep stump

The castle Limburg even Limpurg called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a 272  m above sea level. NN high foothills of the Kaiserstuhl , the Limberg , 40 meters above the Rhine in the district of the municipality of Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The hillside castle is probably the successor to the Old Limburg, a few hundred meters away, and was first mentioned in a document between 1215 and 1221, and it was mentioned again as "castrum de Limberch" in 1239. Former owners of the castle were the Zähringer , Habsburg and Freiburg residents from 1498 to 1590 the Counts of Tübingen . It is still habitable from the 16th century, but passed down as a ruin from 1701. During the Second World War , the castle was bombed in 1945, during which, among other things, significant parts of the keep were destroyed.

The assumption that the place of birth of Rudolf von Habsburg was Limburg Castle is not contemporary, but goes back to an arbitrary statement by Fugger - Birken .

description

The castle was used to monitor the crossing of the Rhine and extended over three terraces, with several buildings and a fountain on the lower one , representative residential buildings on the middle and a keep with residential buildings on the upper one. In total, the core area of ​​the castle was 40 by 80 meters. The complex, which was protected by a wall up to two meters thick, is surrounded by steep cliffs in the north and west and by a deep moat in the south and east . The entrance to the castle was probably in the south. Significant parts of the castle are still preserved.

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6, Tübingen 1904, pp. 104-106 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
• Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz : The castles in the medieval Breisgau, I. Northern part: Half volume L – Z (= archeology and history. Vol. 15). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-7365-8 , pp. 378-390.
• Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .

Web links

Commons : Limburg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Limpurg  - Sources and full texts

• Entry to Limburg b. Sasbach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Limburg Castle at badischewanderungen.de.tl
• Limburg at breisgau-burgen.de
• Limburg at burgenarchiv.de
• Limburg Castle at the Kaiserstuhl at alemannische-seiten.de
• Limburg at etrossi.de ( Memento from August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Oswald Redlich : Rudolf von Habsburg. The German Empire after the fall of the old Empire. Innsbruck 1903, p. 16 ( digitized in the Internet Archive , reprint: Aalen 1965).