Sulz Castle

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Sulz Castle
Alternative name (s): Old Sulz
Creation time : Mid 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Kirchberg an der Jagst
Geographical location 49 ° 12 '25.4 "  N , 9 ° 59' 21.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '25.4 "  N , 9 ° 59' 21.6"  E
Height: 384.4  m above sea level NN
Sulz Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Sulz Castle

The Palace Sulz , even old Sulz called, is an Outbound Höhenburg about half a kilometer north-east of the castle and old town of Kirchberg an der Jagst in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg . At the foot of the castle was the hamlet of Sulz with a Sauerbrunnen, i.e. a salt spring .

Geographical location

The castle stood at 384.4  m above sea level. NN on the downward spur of the mouth of the Steinbach running through a steep blade from Gaggstatt to Jagst , opposite Hornberg Castle in the east on the upward. The main road that crosses the Jagst valley runs through this blade uphill to the northeast. The terrain from the castle grounds also drops sharply to the west, as here the river has cleared the northern part of a widely leveled double loop of the river, from which it has withdrawn somewhat. In the south opposite the Jagst lies the wooded Sophienberg , between this and the Burgsporn the river has broken through; an old mill location at the foot of the castle, which is about 50 meters in front of an old Jagstfurt a little further to the west, later replaced by a bridge, still refers to the increased incline.

history

Sulz Castle, called Sulce in 1157, was built around 1103 by the nobles von Sulz as their ancestral seat. Sulz Castle, opposite Kirchberg Castle, built around 1240 and Hornberg Castle secured the salt road from Hall to Rothenburg through the Jagstfurt. All three were Hohenstaufen imperial castles . The dimensions of the inner castle were approx. 30 × 30 meters. A smaller outer bailey was connected to the northeast, down the slope. In 1472 the castle was occupied by Vogt Karl Gerner and his servant. The castle was destroyed on May 3, 1525 in the Peasants' War. In the 18th century, the castle stalls still had a high wall, the stones of which were probably built into the Jagst weir . Today only buried cellar vaults and section trenches are preserved.

Owners, lords, bailiffs

  • Possession - from Hohenlohe,
  • Fiefdoms - Ganerbesitz after 1472 von Geyer from Gaubüttelbrunn, - before 1480 Jörg Truchseß von Baldersheim , - 1480 Marx von Wollmersleben, - 1500 Wolf Golzmann
  • Burgvogt - in 1472 the Vogt Karl Gernert

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . ( Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 18). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 127-130.
  • Theodor Sandel: "Kirchberg an der Jagst-Schicksal einer Hohenlohe - Franconian City, Volume 1", Verlag Lorenz Spindler Nuremberg 1936, paragraph 3 May, http://www.webisphere.de/geschichte/histhoh2.html

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pro-region.de Sauerbrunnen
  2. ↑ Alte Sulz at kirchberg-jagst.de ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchberg-jagst.de
  3. ↑ Kirchberg at leo-bw.de