Rheinsberg Castle

Rheinsberg Castle
Overgrown wall remains of the former Rheinsberg Castle
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	small remains of the wall
Standing position :	Lords of Schönau
Place:	Murg (Rhine Valley) -Rothaus
Geographical location	47 ° 33 '38 "  N , 8 ° 0' 1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '38 "  N , 8 ° 0' 1"  E
Height:	404  m above sea level NN

The castle Rheinberg is a Outbound hilltop castle on a 404  m above sea level. NN high ridge, the Rheinsberg between Murg and Bad Säckingen near Murg (Rhine Valley) , district of Rothaus in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

The castle was first mentioned in the Habsburg land register in 1281. Rudolf von Tegerfelden had it as a pledge at that time. The Habsburgs are named as the builders of the castle, who they laid out in their function as bailiffs of the Säckingen monastery for its defense. In 1478 Wilhelm von Griessen bought the castle. The von Geroldseck gentlemen were also the owners of Rheinsberg Castle . In the 15th century the patrician family Ratz from Säckingen sat at the castle. In 1477 Jakob von Schönau bought the castle together with the village of Rippolingen . The gentlemen of Schönau then lived temporarily at Rheinsberg Castle as the Grand Master of the Fridolin monastery in Säckingen. After that the castle was abandoned and fell into disrepair. In a feudal letter for Rudolf von Schönau from 1608 and in a document from 1625, Rheinsberg Castle is referred to as "Burgstall", which indicates that the castle was no longer inhabited at that time.

During the Thirty Years' War the facility was poorly repaired and temporarily occupied. With the involvement of Rheinsberg Castle, additional entrenchments were created that reached down to the banks of the Rhine. The end for the castle came in 1638 when the complex was completely destroyed. Kaspar von Schönau had the still usable stones removed and used them in the years 1670–1680 to rebuild the Trumpeter Castle in Bad Säckingen .

Ski jumping facility with Rheinsberg Castle (A)

Map of the Black Forest defense line

Hauenstein battle banner from 1386

In 1691, for fear of French invasions as a result of the Palatinate or Orleans War of Succession, the guardhouse and the fortifications were renewed and expanded for a crew of over 1000 men. The Hauensteiner Landfahnen had to occupy the defenses during this time. The Hauensteiner Landfahn's request to the city of Waldshut to send a small team to “cover the forest” was rejected by the council on the grounds that “the citizens of Waldshut may only be involved in the militia when they move out with the country flag” and one want to hold on to it. Nevertheless, the city of Waldshut had to make a financial contribution. This emerges from a document dated June 5, 1697, in which the then Redman Peter Strittmatter confirms such a payment from the city for “to which Rothenauss drove”.

The expansion measures of 1691 already paid off 10 years later in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) , when the facility was occupied several times. It formed an important defense base for the Black Forest. To the north of the facility, it closed off a field hill that reached as far as a valley cut in the north. Afterwards there were entanglements made of wood and stones that stretched up to the heights of the Hotzenwald . The castle and the Sternschanzenanlage formed the southern cornerstone of the so-called Black Forest line . The final end for Rheinsberg Castle and the associated fortifications came in 1744, when the French destroyed the annoying fortifications during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and largely leveled the area.

investment

Almost nothing is left of the castle complex today. Some elevations in the terrain on the top of the hill suggest that there are still small remains of the wall underneath.

literature

• Peter Ettel, Anne-Marie Flambard Héricher: Château-Gaillard: études de castellologie médiévale, 21 , ISBN 2-902685-04-1
• W. Kohlhammer: Freiburg district , 1982
• Rudolf Metz: Geological regional studies of the Hotzenwald , 1980, ISBN 3-7946-0174-2
• Markus Schäfer: The shepherds of the county of Hauenstein

Web links

• Article by Konrad Lüthi - Rothaus Schanzen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Habsburger Urbar from 1281 in Der Geschichtsfreund, Historischer Verein der 5 Orte Lucern, Uti, Schwyz, Unterwalden, and Zug, Volume 5, 1848, p. 18
2. ^ Notices from the Baden historical commission: Stadtarchiv Waldshut Urk. Nos. 162 and 168