Staufenberg Castle (Black Forest)

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Staufenberg Castle
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Alternative name (s): Staufenburg, Stauffenberg;
Staufenberg Castle
Creation time : 1000 to 1100
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Receive
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Durbach- Staufenberg
Geographical location 48 ° 30 '3.6 "  N , 8 ° 1' 38.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '3.6 "  N , 8 ° 1' 38.3"  E
Height: 383  m above sea level NN
Staufenberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Staufenberg Castle

The castle Staufenberg , also Staufenburg or Stauffenberg called and today as Weingut Schloss Staufenberg known is a hilltop castle on a 383 meter high rocky outcrop north at the hamlet Staufenberg the municipality Durbach in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

Even if no building structure from the 11th and 12th centuries has been preserved, the builders of the castle are the lords and counts of Staufenberg mentioned between 1188 and 1132 in the donation book of the Reichenbach priory in Hirsau and in the founding notes of the St. Georgen monastery ("Stouffenberg") or the Ministerials of the Dukes of Zähringen mentioned since 1148 in question. After 1218 the castle came into the possession of various noble families and was damaged in the Thirty Years War and last plundered by French “marauders” in 1689. At times, Burg Staufenberg served as Ganerbenburg eight families as a residence.

In 1693, Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden bought the castle. From 1832 the castle was expanded into a palace by the Margraves of Baden in the Romantic style and is still privately owned by the Baden family as the Margravial Badische Weinkellerei .

investment

Courtyard

The castle complex rises 10 meters above the neck ditch , which today serves as a parking lot. The buildings in the rear, the oldest part of the plant with Palas containing elements of the keep . The castle tavern leads to the western platform, which today serves as a terrace.

literature

Heiko Wagner, Theiss Castle Guide Upper Rhine. 66 castles from Basel to Karlsruhe, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 140–141. 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 .

  • Kurt Klein: castles, palaces and ruins. Witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , pp. 13-14.
  • Eduard Heyck: History of the dukes of Zähringen. Freiburg 1891, p. 555 f.

Web links

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