Mahlspüren Castle (near the Burgäckern)

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Castle Mahlspüren
Alternative name (s): Burgstall near the Burgäckern
Creation time : 11th or 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, a moat and a wall have been preserved
Place: Stockach - Grinding in the valley - "Heuberg"
Geographical location 47 ° 51 '44.4 "  N , 9 ° 5' 0.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '44.4 "  N , 9 ° 5' 0.5"  E
Height: 540  m above sea level NHN
Mahlspüren Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Castle Mahlspüren

The castle Mahlspüren , as Burgstall near the castle fields referred to, is an Outbound hilltop castle "in the castle fields" on the 540  m above sea level. NHN high Heuberg 800 meters west-southwest of Mahlspüren im Tal , a current district of Stockach in the Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

history

This 11th or 12th century castle is probably the seat of the local nobility of Mahlspüren, who were named from 1090 to the second half of the 13th century. Alternatively, it could also have been the seat of the nobility named after the Frickenweiler lying in a south-westerly direction, in 1263 a Rudolfus von Frickenweiler was named. The end of the castle probably came with the emigration of noble families during the second half of the 13th century.

From the former castle only have Flurnamen castle fields and backgrounds castle and a moat and before a wall preserved.

description

The south-west facing castle complex was divided into a main castle with an oval base area of ​​22 × 33 m, a rear castle with an increased area of ​​around 16 × 22 and a five-meter-wide neck ditch with a steep embankment six to nine meters high.

literature

  • Franz Bohnstedt: The castle site at Mahlspüren in the valley, Stockach district. In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance. Self-published by the Hegau history association Singen e. V., Singen (Hohentwiel) , 1968, issue 1 (25), pp. 145-152.
  • 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. 103 and 152.
  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (Eds.): Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hegau-Bibliothek, Volume 109 . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 , p. 136.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on the traces of grinding at the Burgäckern in the private database “Alle Burgen”.
  2. ↑ Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . P. 103.