Staufen Castle (Breisgau)
| Staufen Castle | ||
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 Ruins of Staufen Castle in Breisgau |
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| Creation time : | 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Staufen im Breisgau | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 53 '11 " N , 7 ° 43' 55.4" E | |
| Height: | 375 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Staufen castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle in a prominent location on a 375 m above sea level. NHN high hill in the north of the city of Staufen im Breisgau in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
Finds and excavations indicate that a watchtower stood on the hill at the site of today's castle ruins as early as Roman times .
The castle probably dates from the early 12th century and was built by the Lords of Staufen . Adalbert von Staufen built the castle house around 1100.
Staufen Castle was expressly mentioned for the first time in a document from 1248; The Üsenbergers , referred to as landlords in this context , never sat in the castle. In the 14th century, the lack of money and unsuccessful feuds between the Lords of Staufen and the nearby city of Freiburg meant that Freiburg was able to gain influence on Staufen Castle.
In the years 1327 and 1337 the city was able to acquire shares in the castle and enforce a so-called opening right . It was forbidden for the other castle owners to do anything against the city of Freiburg from the castle. In return, actions by the city had to be supported and the castle had to be open to the troops at all times.
In 1359 half of the castle and town were pledged by Otto von Staufen to Konrad Schnewlin and in 1370 the feudal sovereignty of the Counts of Freiburg was recognized. Around 1400 Staufen finally came to Front Austria .
With Georg Leo von Staufen, the lords of Staufen died out in 1602, and the castle and town fell back to Austria. In 1607 the castle was no longer inhabited. From 1628 the Staufen rule including the castle was pledged to the barons of Schauenburg (until 1722).
The undefended Staufen Castle was occupied by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War , who burned it down and destroyed it in 1632.
In 1896 the city of Staufen bought the ruins and had them renovated. In 1954 and 1960 the castle ruins were renovated again. Among other things, the surrounding walls of the castle are still preserved.
photos
View over the vineyards to the castle ruins
View from the tower over the outer walls of the city of Staufen below
Castle entrance
Staufen Castle
literature
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon . Wuerzburg 1998.
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
- Klaus Jebens: Staufen Castle and its residents. Lavori-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2001, ISBN 3-935737-40-3 .
- Boris Bigott: The Lords of Staufen - their castle and their city. In: The Markgräflerland . Volume 2/2003, pp. 92–111 ( digitized version from Freiburg University Library ).
- Josef Bader : The Dingrotel by S. Trudbert in Breisgau. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . Volume 21, Karlsruhe 1868, pp. 432-465 ( digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Tübingen / Leipzig 1904, sixth volume, first department - Freiburg district, pp. 478–480 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University Library ).
Web links
- Entry on Staufen Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Staufen Castle at burgenwelt.org
- Staufen castle ruins ( Memento from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Staufen Castle at breisgau-burgen.de
- 3D model of Staufen Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Staufen im Breisgau - Altgemeinde ~ sub-town at leo-bw.de .
- ↑ s. Bader, ZGORh. Vol. 21, p. 439.
- ↑ Magda Fischer: The barons of Schauenburg as pawns of the front Austrian rule Staufen , Schau-ins-Land , 120th year, 2001, p. 99–119 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).