Neresheim Castle

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Neresheim Castle
Alternative name (s): Erinstein, Ernystheim
Creation time : 10th century at the latest
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, built over
Place: Neresheim
Geographical location 48 ° 45 '19.1 "  N , 10 ° 20' 30.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '19.1 "  N , 10 ° 20' 30.9"  E
Neresheim Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Neresheim Castle

The castle Neresheim is an Outbound hilltop castle on the Ulrichsberg east of the city Neresheim in the Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg . Today Neresheim Abbey stands in its place .

history

Duke Tassilo III. and Hartmann von Dillingen, depicted in the Neresheim Abbey Church, 1770–1775

In the 17th century it was assumed that the Neresheim monastery was founded in 777 by Bavarian Duke Tassilo III. was donated. However, this is now considered to be refuted, but this story may belong to the foundation of the castle.

Today we know that the castle belonged to the Hupaldingers, the later Counts of Dillingen , in the 10th century . The Augsburg bishop and saint Ulrich , who came from the Hupaldinger family, built a chapel near the castle. There he moved the body of his father Hubald, who had died in 909 and who had been in Wittislingen until then .

Count Hartmann I von Dillingen , who was also called Count von Neresheim , founded a canon monastery for regular canons at his Neresheim castle in 1095 in honor of his ancestor Ulrich, who has now been canonized . The first provost was supposedly Ernst von Neresheim , who also came from the Dillinger family and died in the first crusade , but this is probably just a modern poem. In 1101 Hugo was the provost. When Hartmann I returned from the crusade, he converted the Canons' Monastery in 1108 into a Benedictine monastery , the Neresheim Abbey , which still exists today (with interruptions) .

In addition to the Counts of Dillingen , a noble family with the name Neresheim is also mentioned in later times , in 1220 a Marquard von Neresheim , 1251 a Berthold von Neresheim . It is not known where they were based and whether they are perhaps even a subsidiary branch of the Dillinger Counts (they also called themselves Counts of Neresheim).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Topographia Sueviae: Neresheim