Lohr Castle (Crailsheim)

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Lohr Castle
Alternative name (s): Old castle
Creation time : probably 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Noble counts
Place: Crailsheim -Lohr
Geographical location 49 ° 6 '18.3 "  N , 10 ° 7' 48.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '18.3 "  N , 10 ° 7' 48.2"  E
Height: 496.5  m above sea level NN
Lohr Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Lohr Castle

The castle Lohr , including Old Castle called, is an Outbound Spur castle in Crailsheim in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Geographical location

The remains of the castle stand on an elongated 496.5  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur southeast of the Lohr district in the Westgartshausen district of Crailsheim.

history

The castle built by the Lords of Lohr was first mentioned indirectly in 1221 with a " Giso von Lohr ".

Its builders, the nobles von Lohr, named 1100–1271, were one of the most important Franconian noble families at that time. They were close relatives of the Counts of Lobenhausen and the Counts of Flügelau and the Krautheim-Klingenfels .

After the death of the last noble von Lohr, a force from Lohr last mentioned in 1271, Count Ludwig III inherited. von Oettingen the lordship including the castle. Afterwards, von Lohr mentioned were Oettingian and later Hohenlohe castle men who named themselves after the castle.

The rule of Lohr fell when Öttingen was placed under imperial ban in 1310 , together with Crailsheim to the Reich . In 1323 it came to Hohenlohe and in 1399 went to the Burgraves of Nuremberg , who later became the Margraves of Ansbach .

Lohr Castle went to the Prince Provost of Ellwangen , which it pledged back to Öttingen in 1317. How long the castle was still inhabited cannot be precisely proven. However, it had already been destroyed before 1324. In 1335 Hohenlohe replaced the öttingischen claims, later the castle stables belonged to the Ansbachischen office Crailsheim.

description

The former castle complex was protected by a ditch with a wall and on three sides by steep slopes. Wall and moat remains as well as small traces of terrain are still preserved.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 71-74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Südwestpresse.de of January 21, 2016
  2. ^ Lohr Castle on leo-bw