Pfannenstiel castle ruins
| Pfannenstiel castle ruins | ||
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 South-east side of the main castle with a former entrance |
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| Creation time : | around 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Small cuboid, quarry stone masonry | |
| Place: | Beuron | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 2 '48 " N , 8 ° 56' 24" E | |
| Height: | 804.3 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Pfannenstiel is the high medieval ruin of a spur castle of unknown class assignment in the forest above the Reinfelder Hof in the district of Beuron in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg . Today there are only sparse and mostly overgrown remains of the former spur castle.
Geographical location
The freely accessible castle complex “auf dem Stiel” is located on the eastern edge of the valley, at the highest point of a long, narrow, east-west facing spur hill above the Bära , which flows into the Danube as a left tributary near the town of Fridingen in the Tuttlingen district . The castle is 804.3 m above sea level. NN , the Bäratal at 640 m above sea level. NN . The former border between Württemberg and Baden goes directly through the southwest part of the castle grounds.
history
Little is known about the history of the castle. Oral tradition has it that Pfannenstiel Castle was destroyed by fire as a result of a nightly lightning strike. A knight's daughter is said to have died in the fire, who is said to have given a servant the order to drown her younger brother beforehand. However, the servant handed the child over to an old woman in Bäratal. The “brother who grew up to be a decent youth” wanted nothing more to do with Pfannenstiel and is said to have built Kreidenstein Castle on the neighboring rock .
Fragments and masonry technology suggest that the castle was built in the second half of the 13th century. By 1400 it was no longer inhabited and the property of the Lords of Urbach . It came to Georg I von Werenwag via Margarethe von Urbach , who brought the castle with her as a marriage property . In 1476 he sold the Burgstall Pfannenstiel with the district Eck (?) And all accessories to the Beuron Abbey and Hans Spretter von Mühlheim .
With the secularization in 1803, the Beuron property with the Pfannenstiel ruins passed to the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , who still own them today.
description
Access to the pre-fortification of the entire system was from the “Hart” plateau in the east, a narrow strip of land between the Danube and Bäratal valleys. A neck ditch separated the fortifications and the walled courtyard in the northwest. Another building can be seen in the courtyard.
The outer bailey was in the west of the complex and protected the castle from the narrow side from the direction of Bäratal. In the north the slope drops into a dry valley. The outer bailey at around 795.6 meters above sea level was secured by a wall and a section ditch when coming from the west . The remains of the core masonry of the outer bailey can still be recognized by a triangular area measuring around 19 by 18 meters.
The core castle is separated from the outer castle in the west by another, lower-lying section ditch. It is dominated by the approximately 5.5 meter high stump of a donjon , a 12 or 11.5 meter wide and almost 23 meter long residential tower-like structure at around 804.3 meters above sea level. The wall thickness is 2.7 meters on the north-west wall, 2.5 meters on the south-east wall and around 2 meters inside. It has an interior space of around 145 square meters. The opening of the north-west wall at the ditch can be viewed as access to a bay window , also an outlet. To the left of this is the remainder of a partition wall that is not connected to the outer wall. In the southeast wall there is a 2.5 meter thick and around 7 meter high breach . Around 1900 the door jambs and the bolt beam hole could still be found here. According to Günter Schmitt, it is the access from the upstream, trapezoidal castle courtyard, which made a wooden staircase or a fixed ramp necessary to overcome the height.
literature
- Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 325–329.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 466.
- Günter Schmitt : pan handle . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 281-286.
- Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 197-199.
- Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN 0178-3262 , pp. 52–53 and 165.
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 , p. 190.
- Karl Theodor Zingeler , Georg Buck: Zollersche palaces, castles and castle ruins in Swabia . Eberhardt Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 48.
- The ruins of Pfannenstiel and Kallenberg . In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . No. 11, 1903.
Web links
- Pictures and directions
- Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state by Wolfgang Braun