Rauhlaubenberg Castle

Rauhlaubenberg Castle
	The inside of the preserved south-western curtain wall
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Immenstadt in the Allgäu -Rauhenzell
Geographical location	47 ° 33 '52 " N , 10 ° 14' 56" E Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '52 " N , 10 ° 14' 56" E
Height:	795 m above sea level NN

The Rauhlaubenberg Castle, also called Laubenegg , is located about one kilometer northeast of the Immenstadt district of Rauhenzell ( Oberallgäu district , Swabia ) in the Egg district on a wooded hilltop at 795 m above sea level. NN . In addition to the ruins of the mighty high medieval residential tower , traces of the terrain and a remnant of the curtain wall have been preserved.

history

The residential tower from the south

The northwest part of the residential tower

The 1935 memorial plaque

The west side of the residential tower

The hill fort was probably built by the Counts of Montfort at the beginning of the 13th century. Around 1265 the counts gave the rule as a fief to the lords of Laubenberg . This family of servants also lived in the neighboring Laubenbergerstein castle as a fief of the Augsburg diocese .

In 1390, after the death of Rudolf IV of Montfort-Feldkirch, power fell to Austria. In 1414 the castle was captured and occupied during a feud between Völk von Laubenberg and his brother-in-law Ulrich von Heimenhofen zu Fluhenstein. However, the lord of the castle was able to get to the nearby Laubenbergerstein Castle to safety. In the following year, the Heimenhofen resident returned the fortress to Völk von Laubenberg after Count Wilhelm von Montfort-Tettnang had mediated between the two parties. Ulrich von Heimenhofen, however, reserved the right to open the castle in order to be able to use Rauhlaubenberg as a base during his feud with the bishopric of Augsburg .

When Völk von Laubenberg died unmarried in 1423, his brother Hans inherited the fiefdom. The lord of Laubenbergerstein Castle later passed the rule on to his sons Jos and Kaspar.

In 1464 the Laubenbergers divided up their family property. Kaspar received the Laubenbergerstein Castle. Hans, the son of Jos von Laubenberg, was awarded the Rauhlaubenberg castles and the original family seat - Alt-Laubenberg Castle near Grünenbach in the Western Allgäu.

During the German Peasant War , the rebels looted the castle in 1525. In 1579 the barely inhabited complex burned down. The Laubenbergers had already moved to their new castle in Rauhenzell twenty years earlier . The now useless hilltop castle was abandoned after the fire.

In 1657 the rule came to the Tyrolean chancellor Johann Andreas Pappus von Tratzberg as an Austrian fief . After the death of the last baron, Pappus von Tratzberg, the ruins went to the barons of Lerchenfeld in 1934 . In 1935, on the initiative of the mayor of Kempten and passionate castle researcher Otto Merkt, a memorial plaque was attached to the residential tower: Veste und Herrschaft Rauhlaubenberg. 1265 Montfort fief of the Lords of Laubenberg. 1415 conquered by Ulrich von Heimhofen, burned down around 1579, in 1647 awarded by Austria to Johann Andreas Pappus von Tratzberg, Chancellor of Tyrol. Sex extinct 1934.

Today the small castle site is almost unnoticed in the forest above the hamlet of Egg. No modern security measures are recognizable. Some brick patches between the Nagelfluhquadern of the tower date from an older time.

description

The fortress is about 25 meters above the associated - still inhabited - former building or farm yard (Egg) on a hill that has already slipped into the valley. The ridge of the hill, which today is only preserved as a narrow ridge, is preceded by a small plateau in the north, which is probably to be interpreted as a bailey . In the northeast or northwest a wide, shallow ditch runs around the foot of the hill.

In the west, some tracks lead from the hiking trail after a short ascent to an approximately two-meter-deep trench southwest of the main castle cone. The castle site is apparently rarely visited and is not indicated by any sign.

The main castle consisted only of a large residential tower made of huge Nagelfluh cuboids , some of which were worked out at the edges to form humpback cuboids with edging . A few stones of the outer shell are made of other stone material. The eastern part of the imposing donjon has long since crashed along with the castle hill. A high curtain wall ran around the tower, some meters of which still stand upright in the southwest.

The west side of the residential tower is still around eight meters high. To the south, the wall connection ends after about four meters at the demolition edge. Here in the east a narrow path (danger of falling) enables the ascent to the top of the wall on the west wall. A small, semicircular recess in the northern part of the inner wall is remarkable.

In the south of the west wall, a large eruption at the base of the tower endangers the substance of the wall. However, the gap in the wall could be bricked up with relatively little effort. In the spring of 2008, three recently erupted large Nagelfluh chunks of the filling plant demonstrated the urgency of this measure.

The ruin cannot be visited safely. The ascent to the inside of the tower is particularly dangerous when it is wet.

literature

Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 1: Castle ruins in the Altlandkreis Kempten and Altlandkreis Sonthofen . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-102-5 , pp. 242-250.
Michael Petzet : Sonthofen district (= The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Volume 8). Oldenbourg, Munich 1964.
Bernhard Zör: Excerpts from documents on the history of the noble family von Laubenberg . In: Annual report of the Historical Association of Swabia and Neuburg . 20, 1854, pp. 65-94 and 21/22, 1956, pp. 89-129.

Web links

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