Steineck Castle (Southern Black Forest)

Steineck Castle
Alternative name (s):	Steinegg
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, small remains
Place:	Schopfheim- Raitbach
Geographical location	47 ° 40 '36.8 "  N , 7 ° 53' 9.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 '36.8 "  N , 7 ° 53' 9.8"  E
Height:	660  m above sea level NN

The castle Steineck , even Steinegg called, is a Outbound hilltop castle at 660  m above sea level. NN on a wooded hill about 200 meters south of Steinighof near the Raitbach district of the town of Schopfheim in the Lörrach district in Baden-Württemberg . There are no more traces of the former castle complex.

Up until the late 18th century there is no evidence of a fortification at this point, which is therefore probably a later date. In 1859 the ruins were demolished, the castle hill leveled for agricultural use, and the stones of the castle were used as building material. There is a risk of confusion with the nearby castle ruins of Burgholz , which were also known as Steineck in the 16th and 17th centuries .

literature

• Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio . Published by the Castle Friends of both Basels on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Klingental printing works, Basel 1981, p. 34.
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Meyer: Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio , p. 34
2. ↑ Klaus Schubring: Die Herrschaft Neuenstein and Hausen im Wiesental , p. 50f In: Das Markgräflerland, Heft 1, 1994, p. 42–64 digital copy of the Freiburg University Library