Oberlauda Castle

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Oberlauda Castle
Remnants of the wall of the abandoned Oberlauda Castle

Remnants of the wall of the abandoned Oberlauda Castle

Alternative name (s): Oberes Schloss Lauda, ​​Bergschloss Oberlauda
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, sparse remains
Place: Oberlauda
Geographical location 49 ° 33 '52.3 "  N , 9 ° 40' 42.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '52.3 "  N , 9 ° 40' 42.9"  E
Height: 285  m above sea level NHN
Oberlauda Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Oberlauda Castle

The castle Upper Lauda , also known as Schloss upper Lauda and Upper Castle Upper Lauda mentioned, is an Outbound Spur castle on Castle Hill in Upper Lauda , a district of Lauda-Königshofen in Main-Tauber-Kreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg . The term Upper Castle was created to distinguish Oberlauda Castle from the Lower Castle Oberlauda .

history

The exact time when Oberlauda Castle was built is unknown. Presumably there was already a pre-medieval fortress on a larger scale, which was expanded into a spacious castle in the Middle Ages . The Oberlauda castle is therefore probably younger than the castle in Lauda, which was also lost .

In 1169 the noble lords of Lauda gave up part of the castle to the Würzburg bishop, Herald von Höchheim , and in 1209 shared it with their relative Siboto von Zimmer. After it expired around 1216, Gerhard von Rieneck is mentioned as the owner in 1225 . In the 13th and the beginning of the 14th centuries, the lower nobility of Lauda were occasionally mentioned as the owners of the Upper Castle , at least some of them residents of the so-called Lower Castle , a residential tower with humpback blocks , which, since expanded, has a plastered half-timbered upper floor .

The castle was the seat of the Lauda office until it was destroyed in the German Peasants' War . On Good Friday in 1525, insurgent farmers set fire to the large complex above Oberlauda. Since then, the stones have been removed from year to year by the citizens of the village and used to build houses. This was widely used until the middle of the 20th century.

Part of the castle hill and moat

The village chronicler Stephan Oehmann (1949) had the castle rebuilt in a drawing. His drawing was based on topographical knowledge, existing wall remnants and several conversations with older residents from Oberlauda, ​​who had seen the outlines of the castle around the 1880s. In 1880 archaeological investigations were carried out in the area of ​​Oberlauda Castle and numerous remains were found, some of which no longer exist today. There are indications of a castle plateau, a ring moat and walls preserved underground, which can be recognized today in the form of earth walls. The foundations that are still visible indicate that the stones were of good quality.

During the construction of a power pole in 1959, a completely existing cellar dungeon of the castle ruins that was discovered during soil tests was filled with concrete . From the point of view of local researchers and archaeologists, this was later referred to as a “great sacrilege”, as Oehmann had pointed out ten years earlier in his homeland book not to give up research into the age of the castle. The ground plan of the former castle can still be partially read from the visible earth walls, although only sparse remains of the former castle remain.

See also

literature

  • Karl Schreck: Lauda - the fate of a former Franconian city . Lauda 1973.

Web links

Commons : Burg Oberlauda  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The Destruction of Oberlauda  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Oberlauda Castle (Upper Castle) in the private database "All Castles". Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d LEO-BW.de: Oberlauda - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ Entry on Oberlauda Castle (Lower Castle, New Castle) in the private database "All Castles". Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c Burg Oberlauda on www.burgenarchiv.de ; accessed on January 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ Oberlauda. Main-Tauber district. Historical site analysis on www.denkmalpflege-bw.de ; accessed on January 29, 2019.
  6. ^ A b c Franconian news : Lauda / Königshofen. Home history. On Good Friday 1525, insurgent farmers set fire to the large complex above Oberlauda. The end of the castle 490 years ago (April 24, 2015); accessed on January 29, 2019.
  7. ↑ Burg Oberlauda on burgrebaus.de ; accessed on January 29, 2019.