Castle latch

Castle latch
Riegel Castle, on the right the Michaelskapelle
Creation time :	1100 to 1200
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, ditch
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Riegel at the Kaiserstuhl
Geographical location	48 ° 8 '50.1 "  N , 7 ° 45' 8.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '50.1 "  N , 7 ° 45' 8.1"  E
Height:	241  m above sea level NN

The castle bar is an Outbound hilltop castle on the Michael Berg at 241  m above sea level. NN near the municipality of Riegel am Kaiserstuhl in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg . In addition to the preserved moat , there is still the Michael's Chapel , which already existed in the 10th century.

In the 12th century the castle was built around the chapel, which was divided into a forecourt, rear and middle castle. The castle was protected from attackers by the rivers. The builders were the lords of Roggenbach , whom the Üsenberg family followed in 1238 as lords of the castle. In the 14th century the castle was first sold to the Snewlin in the courtyard and then to the Malterer gentlemen .

With the death of Hesso V. von Üsenberg, the last of the family, in 1379, the castle was visibly dilapidated and from 1399 was used as a quarry for the construction of the Riegler Castle .

In the meantime, a square with an information board has been set up on Michaelsberg around the chapel.

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6, Tübingen 1904, p. 207 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
• Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz : The castles in the medieval Breisgau, I. Northern part: Half volume LZ . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7995-7365-8 , pp. 353-363.
• 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 .
• Alfons Kohler: The castles of the medieval Breisgau . University printing house Poppen & Ortmann, Freiburg i. Br. 1940.
• Eduard Heyck : documents, seals and coats of arms of the dukes of Zähringen . Academic bookstore from JCB Mohr, Freiburg i. Br. 1892.
• Saskia Hunsicker: The Riegeler Castle . In: Riegeler Almanach 2015, pp. 76–79 ( digitized from academia.edu ).
• Stefan King, Heiko Wagner, Bertram Jenisch: A landmark on the edge of the Kaiserstuhl. Archaeological and architectural studies at the Michael's Chapel near Riegel . Monuments in Baden-Württemberg 2/2012, pp 95-100 ( Digitalisat ( Memento of 21 January 2016 Internet Archive )).
• Thomas Zotz: King Otto I., Count Guntram and Breisach . In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine 137th volume (The new series 98th volume), Stuttgart 1989, pp. 64–77.
• Ulrich Parlow: The Zähringer. Annotated source documentation on a southwestern ducal family of the high Middle Ages . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1999.

Web links

• Entry for Riegel in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Riegel Castle (castro Riegol) at breisgau-burgen.de
• Riegel Castle at alemannische-seiten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Old lock bolt. alemannische-seiten.de, accessed on July 16, 2019 .