Ringenberg Castle

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Ringenberg Castle
Castle plateau from the north

Castle plateau from the north

Alternative name (s): Ringenburg
Creation time : around 1230
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Tower and wall remains, neck ditch
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Maierhöfen -Ringenberg
Geographical location 47 ° 39 '16.6 "  N , 10 ° 2' 23.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '16.6 "  N , 10 ° 2' 23.7"  E
Height: 800  m above sea level NN
Ringenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Ringenberg Castle

The castle Ringenberg , also called Ringenburg , is the ruin of a spur castle at 800  m above sea level. NN high ledge in the district Ringenberg of the municipality Maierhöfen in the Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built around 1230 by the Lords of Ringenberg and was first mentioned in 1291 with a knight from Ringenburg, also called von Horben zu Ringenberg. The Horben zu Ringenberg were knights and servants of the Counts of Montfort-Bregenz . In the middle of the 15th century the castle passed into the possession of the Horben zu Ringenberg and was sold by them to the farmer Anton Wagner (from then on called "Schlossbauer") due to excessive indebtedness and fell into disrepair after 1776. In 1832 the Horber family died with the Baron Anselm von Horben zu Ringenberg. The castle tower remained inhabited until 1892.

description

The former castle complex had a 33 by 20 meter main castle with a round tower in the north corner and the southern tip, a sickle-shaped neck ditch in the northwest and a 70 by 50 meter outer bailey in the west. Today the complex only shows the remains of the walls of the main and outer bailey as well as the remains of the tower and the remains of the neck ditch.

literature

  • Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 2: Castle ruins in the West Allgäu and in the neighboring Vorarlberg, in the Württemberg Allgäu, in the northern Allgäu around Memmingen, in the northeast Allgäu around Kaufbeuren and Obergünzburg as well as in the eastern Allgäu and in the adjacent Tyrol . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-115-7 , pp. 33-42.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 505.
  • Franz Ludwig Baumann : History of the Allgäu . 3 vols. Kempten, 1883/1895.
  • Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the Allgäu - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1602-9 , pp. 46-47.

Web links

Commons : Burg Ringenberg  - Collection of images