Mandach Castle

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Mandach Castle
Castle moat with remains of the bridge pillar

Castle moat with remains of the bridge pillar

Alternative name (s): Weiler Castle
Creation time : 14th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Remains received
Standing position : Lords of Erzingen, Lords of Mandach, St. Blasien Monastery
Place: Ühlingen-Birkendorf
Geographical location 47 ° 42 '24.6 "  N , 8 ° 16' 33.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '24.6 "  N , 8 ° 16' 33.7"  E
Mandach Castle (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Mandach Castle

The castle Mandach even Burgweiler called, stands at Riedern am Wald , a district of Ühlingen-Birkendorf in district Waldshut on a rocky outcrop above the Mettmatal .

history

Little is known about the history of its construction. Around 1352 a Heinrich von Erzingen is mentioned. The Erzinger owned the castle until it died out around 1501. Then it was sold to Junker Lukas von Reischach . This sold them to St. Blasien , which they managed by bailiffs . In 1581 , Christoph von Mandach settled in Weiler Castle . He died around 1616. He was chief bailiff of the Margrave of Baden in Ettlingen , his widow Euphrosine inherited her rights to the Riedern am Wald monastery in 1610 . The castle was probably abandoned afterwards. Euphrosine's son Christof Jakob von Mandach was court master at the bishop in Worms.

Presumably, the castle was named Burg Mandach after this family. In Bad Zurzach formerly stood a castle Mandach . The von Mandach were once ministerials of the Hochstift Konstanz , their coat of arms is still preserved in the local coat of arms of Mandach .

location

Unusual facing wall on the southern perimeter wall

The spur castle , of which some remains are still visible, is built on a rock spur on granite, so that many parts of the wall have slid down the slope over the centuries. You can still see the foundation wall (cistern?) Of a round corner tower and the remains of the piers of the ( train -?) Bridge. The ruin is overgrown with trees. The southern perimeter is still about half full with facing wall obtained on the remaining wall, the lining is visible.

literature

  • Heinz Voellner: The castles and palaces between Wutach and Rhine , pp. 88–92, with location and reconstruction drawings, 1975

Web links

Commons : Burg Mandach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Metz: Geologische Landeskunde des Hotzenwalds , 1980, pp. 889–890
  2. ↑ Hans Rudolf Sennhauser, Geschichte des Fleckens Zurzach , 2004, p. 37 ff