Limburg Castle (Swabian Alb)

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Limburg Castle
Limburg. View from the direction of Neidlingen

Limburg. View from direction Neidlingen Coming

Creation time : around 1050
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Weilheim an der Teck
Geographical location 48 ° 36 '15 "  N , 9 ° 32' 11"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '15 "  N , 9 ° 32' 11"  E
Height: 598  m above sea level NN
Limburg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Limburg Castle
Floor plan of the excavation results 1913/14.
1 South tower
2 North tower
3 Section trench
4 Enclosing wall
5 Main entrance
6 Height point 597.8 m
7 Michaelis Chapel
8 Lower Castle
9 Fountain
10 Zwinger
11 Footpath to Weilheim
12 Lindach Valley
13 Direction Weilheim
14 Paved area
15 Front courtyard
16 Sign
Remains of the section trench (No. 3) seen from the southwest

The Limburg is an Outbound hilltop castle in the town of Weilheim an der Teck in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg .

location

The Postal is located on the top of 598 meters above sea level reaching Limburg , the local mountain of the city of Weilheim an der Teck, a conical mountain of volcanic origin, north of Albtrauf and in the foothills of the central Swabian Alb .

history

The castle, built around 1050 by Count Berthold I with the beard , was one of the oldest Romanesque high aristocratic castles and was first mentioned in 1077. It is considered his ancestral castle, where he died in 1078. Around 1100 his son Berthold II built a new castle in Zähringen near Freiburg, Burg Zähringen , and relocated the headquarters there. He no longer called himself "Graf von Lintburg" / "Margrave of Lintburg", but "Duke of Zähringen".

Limburg was probably destroyed in the investiture dispute , rebuilt and inhabited by vassals of the Zähringer from the lower Weilheim nobility. It was probably destroyed again around 1130 and rebuilt again. It was not until 1150, when the Zähringers built the stronger Teck Castle , that it lost its importance and, together with Teck Castle, fell to Adalbert , the founder of the Dukes of Teck . It was abandoned and after its decay, the “Michael's Chapel” was built on the summit plateau in the 15th century.

investment

Above the ground there are no longer any remains of the ruins of the wall, the course of some of the foundation walls is only visible as elevations in the relief of the terrain.

The former castle complex had an oval main castle divided by a section ditch into a northern and southern section . The southern tower had an almost square base area of ​​8 by 8 meters.

The later built chapel was located in the northern area of ​​the former inner castle. Only the remains of a wall in the ground have survived from her.

Dragon saga

The legend of a voracious dragon has grown up around Limburg , it is known as "The Dragon on Limburg". After that, the huge dragon lived in a rock hole on the Limburg and ate the residents in the area on its forays. Worn by the constant danger of death, many people moved far away from Limburg. When the emperor heard of this misfortune and no knight was ready to kill the terrible dragon, he ordered two people to be chosen as victims every day in order to appease the dragon. One day the lot fell on the beautiful daughter of the emperor. And although the emperor had great power, he could not help her and cancel the order he had previously given. There was great sadness in the country. But when the girl was about to be sacrificed, a strange knight hurried up on a white horse. After a long fight, the knight managed to hit the dragon's heart with his lance and kill it. The people burst into jubilation and before people wondered who this knight was, he quietly disappeared. They never found out who this knight was; some say it was St. George , others think that the Archangel Michael freed people. Out of gratitude, the people built a chapel in honor of the knight on the summit of Limburg.

literature

  • Manfred Waßner u. a .: The history of the city on Limburg. Weilheim an der Teck 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021110-2 .
  • Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 4: Alb Mitte-Nord - Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Verlag Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 85-90;
  • 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 .
  • Manfred Wetzel, Joachim Burzik: From ancient times. Legends of the country between Schönbuch, Schurwald and Alb. Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 1984, ISBN 3-7966-0597-4 .
  • Hans Schwenkel: Heimatbuch des Kreises Nürtingen, Volume I , 1950, pp. 185–287;
  • Anke K. Scholz: A fortress favored by nature . In: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg , 43rd year 2014, issue 3, pp. 197-199. ( PDF; 9.3 MB )

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