Runstal Castle

Ruin Runstal
	Burgstall Runstal
Alternative name (s):	Rumstal, Rumensthal
Creation time :	before 1111
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Construction:	Ashlar
Place:	Villingen-Schwenningen
Geographical location	48 ° 2 '43.7 " N , 8 ° 25' 32" E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '43.7 " N , 8 ° 25' 32" E
Height:	735.8 m above sea level NN

The castle Runstal , also called Rumstal or Rumen valley is an Outbound lowland castle in Wieselsbachtal about three kilometers southwest of the city of Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest-Baar in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

Wall remains

The builders of the castle, which was first mentioned in 1111 in the Rotulus Sanpetrinus , were apparently the Lords of Runstal, ministerials of the Dukes of Zähringen . In 1207 Runstal was sold by the then owner Konrad von Schwarzenberg to the Salem monastery , which she converted into a grangie before it fell to the city of Villingen in 1259. The adjacent settlement was abandoned in the 14th century, and from the 16th century the castle was also called the Burgstall.

The former Niederungsburg is located on a round embankment surrounded by a ditch with a diameter of about 30 meters. During a provisional excavation in 1942, a massive stone building came to light, which may have replaced a wooden moth in the late Middle Ages and was surrounded by a curtain wall.

Today only the hill with a moat and a few superficial accumulations of stones can be seen, which indicate the remains of a wall.

literature

Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 2, Freiburg i. Br. 1890, p. 156 ( digital copy from Heidelberg University Library ).
Bertram Jenisch: Villingen - Archaeological evidence of settlement in the 11th and 12th centuries . In: Heinrich Maulhardt, Thomas Zotz (eds.): Villingen 999–1218 . Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft, Waldkirch 2003.
Paul Revellio : Contributions to the history of the city of Villingen . City of Villingen in the Black Forest, Villingen 1964.
Josef Fuchs: Rumstal, formerly a village and castle near Villingen . Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar , Issue 29, Donaueschingen 1972, pp. 230–240.
Heiko Wagner: Zähringer castles on the Baar and in the Black Forest. Between myth and truth. Schau-ins-Land , 133rd year, 2014, pp. 17–18 ( digital copy from Freiburg University Library ).

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Runstal - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Castles in the Bregtal and the surrounding area ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at thz-historia.de

Individual references / comments

↑ see Josef Fuchs

↑ Konrad von Schwarzenberg was the name of six successive free feuds of the noble women's monastery of St. Margarethen in Waldkirch, founded by the Alemanni Duke Burkhard I around 918 (their reigns are listed on a board in the Schwarzenberg castle ruins ). The owner of Runstal was thus the St. Margarethen monastery. These bailiffs and their successors, who also called themselves von Schwarzenberg, sold almost the entire property, which was scattered from Basel in the south to Herbolzheim in the north and Villingen in the east. This led to the financial decline of the monastery, which was dissolved in 1430 due to impoverishment.

[Sonderdruck_29-1] see Josef Fuchs