Steinegg Castle (Bonndorf)

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Steinegg Castle
North side of the keep (1991)

North side of the keep (1991)

Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Keep
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Humpback block made of red sandstone
Place: Bonndorf - Wittlekofen
Geographical location 47 ° 46 '18.1 "  N , 8 ° 20' 9.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '18.1 "  N , 8 ° 20' 9.6"  E
Height: 720  m above sea level NN
Steinegg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Steinegg Castle

The Steinegg castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 720  m above sea level. NN high ridge 400 meters away from the ruins of Roggenbach Castle near Wittlekofen , a district of the town of Bonndorf in the Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built in the 12th century by the Lords of Steinegg, who were followers of the Dukes of Zähringen . After the Lords of Steinegg died out, the castle came to the Nellenburg family . After several changes of ownership, the castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 , as was Roggenbach Castle.

The keep , the remainder of a six-meter-high wall and the 20-meter-deep neck moat are still preserved from the former castle complex .

The mighty keep wall on the ground floor was "broken open" in the 18th century with a ground-level breakthrough across the corner, and the interior is lined with accurately smoothed stone blocks. This room, interpreted as a “treasure chamber”, “archive” or “dungeon”, was originally the castle's emergency cistern .

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 582.
  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas, Volume 2 . Südkurier publishing house, Konstanz 1987, ISBN 3-87799-075-4 , pp. 145-147.
  • Ministry of Finance Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Castles, palaces and ruins . Stuttgart 1980.

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