Stubenberg Castle

Stubenberg Castle
Alternative name (s):	Giengerhof
Creation time :	probably 12./13. century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, neck trenches
Place:	Schwäbisch Gmünd - hamlet in the mountains - "Stubenberg"
Geographical location	48 ° 46 '38.2 "  N , 9 ° 52' 45.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '38.2 "  N , 9 ° 52' 45.3"  E
Height:	530.5  m above sea level NHN

The castle Stubenberg , even Giengerhof called, is a abgegange Spur castle at 530.5  m above sea level. NHN on the western foothills of the "Hochsträß" (Stubenberg) near the hamlet of Weiler in the mountains of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the Ostalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

It is assumed that Stubenberg Castle was built in the Staufer era as the seat of a family of ministers from the Staufer family. A noble family can be documented from 1319 to the end of the 14th century. It belonged to the Lorch Abbot Ludwig von Stubenberg 1333-1371 († 1374).

The Stubenberg (or Gingerhof) farm is documented as being owned by the von Rechbergs from 1365 onwards. In 1461 Hans Ginger was enfeoffed with him as an inheritance from the Weißenstein line of Rechbergers . Wolf von Rechenberg zu Hohenrechberg finally sold the Stubenberg farm as well as the Bargau and Bargau Castle to the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd .

The two neck moats of the elongated, narrow castle area, which divided the castle complex into three elevations, are still preserved.

literature

• Klaus Graf : The Lords of Stubenberg and their castle on the hamlet mark in the mountains . In: einhorn-Jahrbuch 1978, pp. 218–220 doi : 10.6094 / UNIFR / 16091 ; Supplements ibid 1979, p. 155 doi : 10.6094 / UNIFR / 10328 , ibid 1997, pp 115-116 online .
• Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 1 - Northeast Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 37-42 (incorrect).

Web links

• Entry on Stubenberg (Giengerhof) in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• History of the Giengerhof at leo-bw.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry about his term of office with Oswald Gabelkover: Digital copy of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart.