Stockburg Castle

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Stockburg
Ring wall

Ring wall

Creation time : probably 11th or 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Castle stable, ring wall and castle hill preserved
Place: Badenweiler - "Stockberg"
Geographical location 47 ° 47 '0.8 "  N , 7 ° 43' 1.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '0.8 "  N , 7 ° 43' 1.7"  E
Height: 1074.4  m above sea level NN
Stockburg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Stockburg Castle

The Stockburg is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 1074.4  m above sea level. NN high mountain cone of the Stockberg between the valleys of Klemmbach and Kander on the boundary between Badenweiler and Malsburg-Marzell .

location

The system is located on a steep, flattened porphyry cone . The district boundary between the communities of Badenweiler and Malsburg-Marzell and thus the district boundary between the Baden-Württemberg districts of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Lörrach runs right through it. If it was really a castle, it is the highest known castle in Baden-Württemberg.

The Stockberg can be reached on foot from the parking lot on the Egerten-Sattel via the Schwarzwald-Westweg . Branching off from the Westweg, the steep summit can be climbed on unmarked and partly overgrown paths.

description

Julius Closer described in 1882 the plant as Alemanni wall . Finds (ceramics, iron) from 1971/72 and 1997 were dated to the 12th century, which is why it is now assumed to be a medieval castle. Remnants of ramparts and moats are still preserved from the former ramparts , a trapezoidal ring rampart with dimensions of 40 meters in an east-west direction and 15 to 25 meters wide .

history

Air observation post of the Hitler Youth from World War II ?

Finds from Roman times have also been found in the area of ​​the complex . It is believed that porphyry was mined nearby . The ramparts, however, will only be on the 11th / 12th. Dated century. Nothing is known about the builders, the history and the fall of the castle. Due to the location and the estimated time of origin, it is assumed that the Lords of Kaltenbach were the owners. The castle could have served to protect mines and to control a path from the Klemmbachtal into the Kandertal. The complex was probably only used until the 13th century and has since fallen into disrepair. The interpretation of the remains of the complex is made more difficult by the fact that the Hitler Youth is said to have built stone huts on the Stockberg in 1936/37 . However, since reports and sketches from 1882 and 1901 already show the remains of stone buildings within the Wallring, older buildings must be assumed.

Monument protection

The Stockburg is designated as an excavation reserve.

literature

  • Bertram Jenisch: Stockburg. In: Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz (editor): The castles in medieval mash gau. Volume II: The southern part of half-band A-K . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-7366-5 , pp. 61-63.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 588.
  • 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. 35.
  • Karlheinz Beyerle: The ring wall on the Stockberg: An attempt at a cultural-historical interpretation of the system. In: Malsburg-Marzell - a search for traces in the southern Black Forest, published by the municipality of Malsburg-Marzell, 1995, pp. 45–47.
  • Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1901, fifth volume - Lörrach district; P. 66–67 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University Library ).
  • Christian Adolf Müller: II. Badenweiler and its surroundings. In: Das Markgräflerland , 1973, special issue Burgen und Schlösser, pp. 24–39; zur Stockburg pp. 27–28, with a sketch ( digitized from Freiburg University Library ).
  • Willi Werth: Corrections to castles and palaces, special edition 1973. To: Report and sketch of the Stockberg near Badenweiler. In: Das Markgräflerland, Heft 1/2 1975, pp. 128–129 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Web links

Commons : Stockburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Julius Naeher , Karl Christ: The first Germanic defense structures on the Upper Rhine. In: Year books of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland, Volume 74 (1882), pp. 1–23; p. 12/13 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Entry on Stockberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  3. ↑ s. Jenisch p. 62.
  4. ↑ s. Müller p. 27.
  5. ↑ s. Jenisch p. 62.
  6. ↑ s. Werth p. 129.