Neu-Fürstenberg Castle

Neu-Fürstenberg Castle
Castle ruins from the southwest
Creation time :	around 1360
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Vöhrenbach- Hammereisenbach
Geographical location	47 ° 59 '52.9 "  N , 8 ° 19' 35.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '52.9 "  N , 8 ° 19' 35.7"  E
Height:	810  m above sea level NN

The castle Neu-Fürstenberg is the ruin of a spur castle at 810  m above sea level. NN high rock spur above the confluence of the Urach in the Breg in the Hammereisenbach-Bregenbach district of the city of Vöhrenbach in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was probably built around 1360 by the Counts of Fürstenberg on an earlier site from the 12th century to secure the connecting road between Baar and Breisgau and to control the ore deposits and their processing in the Eisenbachtal from the 16th century. The castle was mentioned in 1381, in 1485 by Count Heinrich VI. Von Fürstenberg called it a “worthless house” and destroyed it on May 8, 1525 in the German Peasants' War by the “Klettgau Heap” under Hans Müller .

investment

The main castle with a view of the shield wall

The relatively small castle complex formed an irregular square without a keep . The facility was protected by a mighty shield wall in the west , which is still 15 meters high and 4.7 meters thick at its base . An artificial neck ditch separated the castle site from the mountain. In addition to the essential foundations of the core castle and the remains of a presumably upstream kennel , the mighty shield wall of the former castle complex has been preserved.

literature

• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas . 1st edition, Verlag des Südkuriers, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 125–127.
• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .
• Eduard Schuster: The castles and palaces of Baden . Verlag der Hofbuchhandlung Friedrich Gutsch, Karlsruhe 1908.
• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6 Freiburg district, Tübingen 1904, pp. 378–379 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
• Karl Siegfried Bader : Kürnburg, Zindelstein and Warenburg - bases of the Zähringer rule over Baar and the Black Forest , 1937, pp. 113–114 ( digitized from breisgau-burgen.de ).
• Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 178-183.

Web links

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

• Neufürstenberg ruins at voehrenbach.de
• Neufürstenberg Castle at badischewanderungen.de.tl
• Castles in the Bregtal and the surrounding area ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at thz-historia.de

Remarks

1. ↑ The most recent finds from the castle site, which are available to the Freiburg Monument Preservation, document an early castle similar in size to today's castle ruins around 1200 at the latest and the beginning of the new construction of Neu-Fürstenberg Castle around 1360.