Steinegg Castle (Bonndorf)
Steinegg Castle | ||
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North side of the keep (1991) |
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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 | |
Height: | 720 m above sea level NN | |
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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.
Web links
- Steinegg Castle at burgenwelt.de
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun