Staufen Castle (Hegau)

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Staufen Castle
Staufen 02.jpg
Creation time : before 1269
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Hilzingen
Geographical location 47 ° 46 '19.9 "  N , 8 ° 48' 11.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '19.9 "  N , 8 ° 48' 11.9"  E
Height: 594  m above sea level NHN
Staufen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Staufen Castle

The Staufen castle is the ruin of a medieval hilltop castle on the 594  m above sea level. NHN high eponymous mountain Staufen on the northeastern outskirts of Hilzingen , a municipality in the district of Konstanz , in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

history

The mountain cone and castle complex were in the fiefdom of the Lords of Homburg from around 1269 to the 15th century, with Wolf von Homburg being the last of his tribe in 1566, partly fiefdom of the Counts of Hohenberg, until this was taken over by the Dukes of Austria in 1381. In 1499 the Confederates burned the castle down in the Swiss War , the castle was finally destroyed in the Thirty Years' War : The troops of Konrad Widerholt , the commander of the Hohentwiel fortress , demolished the interior and in 1638 the castle buildings. In 1641 and 1644 the demolished castle played a role again as the headquarters for the besiegers of the Hohentwiel fortress.

investment

Since this ruin was also used by the population for the extraction of building material, only larger stretches of the curtain wall and some building remains that are in danger of collapsing are preserved today.

literature

  • Eberhard Dobler: The Staufen - a Zähringer castle in Hegau . In: Hegau 23/24, 1967, pp. 27-36.
  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now . 2nd edition Konstanz: Verl. D. Südkurier, 1985, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 . P. 40 ff.
  • Tobias Teyke, Wolfgang Teyke: The ruins of Staufen near Hilzingen in Hegau. About the layout and construction of the medieval castle . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 132 (2014), ISBN 978-3-7995-1720-1 .

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