Schwanau Castle (Upper Rhine)
| Schwanau Castle | |
|---|---|
| Creation time : | before 1267 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | departed |
| Standing position : | Nobles |
| Place: | Gerstheim / Schwanau- Ottenheim |
The castle Schwanau is a Outbound lowland castle on the Upper Rhine . It was located on the left bank of the Rhine on what is now French territory near Gerstheim opposite the Ottenheim district of the Schwanau community in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg .
The customs castle belonged to the Lords of Geroldseck and remained in common ownership even after their division of power in 1277. It was used to control navigation on the Rhine with customs revenue. After the Schwanauer plundered the ships more and more, the castle was taken over by the cities on the Upper Rhine under the leadership of Strasbourg after a long siege, during which Walter III. von Geroldseck fell, captured on June 1, 1333, razed and not rebuilt. The castle site can no longer be precisely located today.
The residents of Schwanau Castle revolted in 1333 over a nasty ruse by the Strasbourg besiegers, who filled barrels with collected waste or liquid manure and catapulted it into the castle.
literature
- Nicolas Mengus, Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Châteaux forts et fortifications médiévales d′Alsace. Dictionnaire d′histoire et d′architecture . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 2013, ISBN 978-2-7165-0828-5 , pp. 106-107.
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 107.
- Hugo Schneider: Schwanau Castle . In: Castles and palaces in Mittelbaden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Volume 64, Publishing House of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , p. 294 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Karl Geib, H. Hoff, 1836, 524 pages: The sagas and stories of the Rhineland , page 59: The lady of Geroldseck ( digitized in the Internet archive ).
Web links
- Schwanau Castle fell after a long siege , Offenburger Tageblatt , August 21, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl List: The Tiefburg Lahr - a Hohenstaufen castle . In: Newsletter of the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 9, No. 3–4, 1966, p. 90 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- ↑ Mention of the castle as lying on the left bank of the Rhine, which is France today , michaelskirche-ottenheim.de, accessed on March 21, 2016.
- ↑ Schwanau at leo-bw.de
- ^ The village of Ottenheim ( Memento from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), schwanau.de.
- ↑ Nicolai Guleke : War Surgery and War Surgeons through the Ages. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1945, p. 5
- ↑ Üble Fragrances ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), pm-magazin.de.
- ↑ Le siège de Schwanau, guerre bactériologique? autour-du-mont-sainte-odile.fr, July 18, 2014, accessed on July 12, 2020 (French).