Roßwangen Castle

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Roßwangen Castle
Creation time : before 1255
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Construction: Ashlar masonry
Place: Balingen - Roßwangen - "Burgühl"
Geographical location 48 ° 13 '39.6 "  N , 8 ° 49' 55.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '39.6 "  N , 8 ° 49' 55.4"  E
Height: 701  m above sea level NHN
Roßwangen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Roßwangen Castle

The castle Roßwangen is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 701  m above sea level. NHN high "Burgbühl" near Roßwangen , a current district of Balingen in the Zollernalb district ( Baden-Württemberg ).

history

The castle Roßwangen was the ancestral seat of the local lords of Roßwangen, the so-called Kerus, they were one of three family lines of the lords of Bisingen. The line of the Walger von Bisingen sat on a castle in Bisingen and on the castle Ror , a line was named after the place Zainingen. They served the Counts of Zollern , the Lords of Hohenberg and the Counts of Zollern-Schalksburg .

The castle was built by Walger I. von Bisingen, his brother Baldebert and his father, as Walger attests in a document dated July 16, 1255. In doing so, they seize fields that were the property of the Sankt Blasien Monastery , which led to a lawsuit. The Bisingers then gave half of the fields back to the monastery.

The castle was destroyed during the lifetime of Walger I's father; he had already died at the time the certificate was issued in 1255. With the construction of the castle of the Walger von Bisingen the building of a manor around Roßwangen was connected, however the family disappeared from history around the year 1290.

The estate came into the possession of the lords of Tierberg around 1360 , from them through the lords of Ramsperg to the lords of Bubenhofen , who connected it with the Dotternhausen manor .

Nothing is left of the former castle complex.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis District Office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , p. 332.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 332
  2. ↑ Roßwangen at leo-bw.de
  3. ^ Entry on Rosswangen in the private database "Alle Burgen".