Neukrenkingen Castle

Neukrenkingen Castle
Creation time :	1209 to 1241
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Place:	Klettgau-Riedern am Sand
Geographical location	47 ° 37 '30.7 "  N , 8 ° 27' 12.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '30.7 "  N , 8 ° 27' 12.6"  E

The castle Neukrenkingen is an Outbound hilltop castle near Riedern am Sand, in the municipality of Klettgau in Baden-Wuerttemberg Waldshut . The few remains of the wall still preserved today are located on a ridge of the Klettgau 130 meters above the village of Oberriedern.

Historical description of the facility

A historical description by Pastor Mauritius Hohenbaum van der Meer from 1770 describes the situation at that time as follows: “You go from the foot of the mountain, where the so-called Hasel mill is located together with the small town of Ober Riedern and you reach the summit, which slopes steeply on all sides and only continues to the rear, but is separated by a deep ditch. The path is steep but solid made of stone, carved out of the rock behind the castle, which tower over the hiker on the outer side. The castle itself takes up the whole of the prominent hill and, to put it this way, forms a square circle with the (4) angles rounded. There are still several walls 20 feet high and just as deep at the bottom; the interior of the castle shows a vaulted hollow space (voraginem fornicibus arcuatam) and reveals an opening intended for secret use. The walls are six or even ten feet thick, especially on the right-hand side, where there appears to have been a tower or prison. The entire castle is over 400 feet in circumference. If one crosses the moat, towards the continuation of the mountain, other remnants of strong walls run down, stretching about 80 paces in length. They seem to have another fortification, which was also on a special hill and was surrounded by a moat, but which has been completely destroyed. Now fields go up to these walls; they belong to the Eichberg farms a quarter of an hour away, where there are several hills on both sides. "

Coat of arms of the Lords of Krenkingen

history

The builders of the castle are the Barons von Krenkingen , who built the complex between 1209 and 1241. In the second half of the 13th century the complex passed to Rudolf von Habsburg . It was first mentioned in a document in 1241. In 1421, the abbot of Rheinau, Hugo von Almishofen, who was forcibly kidnapped by Hermann von Sulz , was held there. Van der Meer says that the castle was destroyed in 1437. The ancestral castle of the Krenkinger, the Altkrenkingen castle and their Krenkingen castle are located in the Steinatal.

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus (ed.): The art monuments of the Waldshut district . Mohr, Freiburg im Breisgau 1892 ( The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Volume 3), pp. 120–121 ( online ).
• Heinz Voellner: The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Upper Rhine . Hochrhein-Geschichtsverein, Waldshut 1975, pp. 55–57 ( PDF ; 884 kB).

Web links

• The castle ruins on the Baden side
• Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual evidence

1. ^ FX Kraus: The art monuments of the Waldshut district , p. 120.
2. ↑ burgeninventar.de ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed July 12, 2010.