Ror Castle

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Ror Castle
Ror castle ruins - restored shield wall and information board

Ror castle ruins - restored shield wall and information board

Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, slope spur
Conservation status: Ruins, remains of walls, trenches and ramparts have been preserved
Standing position : Aristocracy, customs ministerial
Construction: Quarry stone masonry
Place: Bisingen
Geographical location 48 ° 17 '14 "  N , 8 ° 54' 49"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '14 "  N , 8 ° 54' 49"  E
Height: 673  m above sea level NN
Ror Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Ror Castle

The castle Ror is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the slope of Schlössle Forest, one of the Hundsrücken upstream slope spur, at about 673 meters above sea level south of the community Bisingen in Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

The castle was built around the year 1100 by the Lords of Bisingen. This noble family was divided into three lines, with the line of the Walger von Bisingen sitting on a castle in the village and on the castle Ror. One of the other two branches was named after the town of Zainingen, and the Kerus branch also existed. They served the Counts of Zollern with their neighboring Hohenzollern Castle , the Lords of Hohenberg and the Counts of Zollern-Schalksburg .

The castle nobility is mentioned several times, for example around 1228 with Baldebert I von Bisingen, and in 1255 with his son Walger I von Bisingen. Baldebert built another castle near Roßwangen on the Burgbühl, which was destroyed when he died in 1263. Another Walger III appears later, he owned Bisingen and the Ror Castle as a fiefdom of the Counts of Zollern-Schalksburg.

In the year 1311 the castle was destroyed by the city of Reutlingen in the war between the Swabian imperial cities and Württemberg , it is said: "[The Reutlingen people] led their troops to Ror, many perished in it" . After that, or after a previous destruction, the palace hall of the castle was rebuilt.

After the death of Walger IV. In 1342, the Ror castle stable and the village of Bisingen were sold to the Counts of Zollern for 500 pounds by the Urach truchess Ritter Cuon (Konrad). The castle farms, which were located below in the valley, were also lent to citizens of Streichen in 1343.

In the period between 1953 and 1959, excavations took place and the remains of the wall were secured by the Bisingen-Steinhofen local history association under the direction of the State Monuments Office with Angelika Reiff. In 2004/05 further archaeological excavations were carried out by the Tübingen regional council, monument preservation department under the direction of Erhard Schmidt.

Remnants of walls, moats and ramparts are still preserved from 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 , pp. 101-104.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 5 · West Alb. Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 325-332.
  • Wachendorfer: excavations at the former castle "Ror" near Bisingen. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat. Volume 15, number 1, January 1965, p. 9. (digitized) (PDF; 9.62 MB)

Web links

Commons : Burg Ror  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ This is indicated by the excavation results of 2004/05, which were carried out by the Tübingen Regional Council, Department of Monument Preservation under the direction of Erhard Schmidt
  2. ↑ Also found here by the excavation of 2004/05
  3. ^ Source history: Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 102ff.