Neu-Sunthausen Castle

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Neu-Sunthausen Castle
Alternative name (s): Sunthausen, Sundhausen
Creation time : 1250 to 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Place: Geisingen -Hausen
Geographical location 47 ° 54 '26.6 "  N , 8 ° 41' 47.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '26.6 "  N , 8 ° 41' 47.4"  E
Height: 770  m above sea level NN
Neu-Sunthausen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Neu-Sunthausen Castle

The castle New Sunthausen even Sunthausen called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on 770  m above sea level. NN on the northeast side of the Kilteltal around 2000 meters southeast of the Hausen district of the city of Geisingen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Sunthausen Castle was built in the second half of the 13th century by the noble lords of Sunthausen . In 1413 "Nuwen Sunthausen, the festivals" was then sold by Hainrich von Sunthausen to the Lords of Reischach , who also sat in the Stettener Schlösschen to the south . In the middle of the 15th century, Hans von Rechberg then owned the castle. The end of the system came in 1446 through the city of Schaffhausen , with which Hans was in feud . Although he was able to flee in time, the castle was destroyed to the ground. After that, the ruinous castle is again in the possession of the Lords of Reischach. They sold the Burgstall Sunthausen in 1588 to the Counts of Fürstenberg .

Small remains of the wall have survived from the former castle complex, which had a 20 to 30 meter wide and 15 to 20 meter deep neck ditch .

literature

  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas . Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1987, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 235-237.
  • 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 , p. 69.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas , p. 237
  2. ↑ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 69.