Sulzburg Castle (Breisgau)
Sulzburg Castle | ||
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Castle site from the west with a ditch in front |
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Alternative name (s): | Schlossberg | |
Creation time : | 1150 to 1200 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Wall remains, neck ditch | |
Standing position : | Nobles | |
Place: | Sulzburg | |
Geographical location | 47 ° 50 '35.9 " N , 7 ° 42' 34.2" E | |
Height: | 380 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Sulzburg is the ruin of a spur castle at 380 m above sea level. NHN high, also called "Schlössleberg" hill near the monastery forest above the town of Sulzburg in the Baden-Württemberg district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Germany .
history
The castle was probably built by the lords of Uesenberg in the second half of the 12th century. In 1157 the Lords of Uesenberg were named as patron bailiffs of the Sulzburg monastery. Under their rule, the place was fortified with walls and towers and received city rights around 1280. The Uesenbergers (until 1331) probably received the mining rights from the Bishopric of Basel , which Emperor Konrad II had granted to the Bishopric around 1028, as well as the silver mines in Sulzburg. The construction of the castle complex on the Schlössleberg should be seen in this context - it served to protect and control the important mining industry in the Sulzburger Valley. In 1439 the castle was mentioned in a document, but no information is available about its end.
investment
The castle complex rises on an elongated rock spur made of gneiss rock, which may have been artificially piled up to form a hill about the height of a house. The flattened, leveled dome forms an approximately rectangular area almost 50 m long and 20 m wide. A few, shallow depressions in the northern part indicate the location of structures or remains of foundations in the ground.
At the narrowest points, ditches border the castle site - on the mountain side (northeast side), with the monastery forest spreading there, a neck ditch ; On the valley side (southwest side) a flatter, upstream ditch. A wall protrusion 7 m wide and 5.5 m deep on its east side is formed on the south corner, resembling a rectangular terrace and from which wall foundations up to 2.5 m high have been preserved. Subsequent to this, over the entire length of the south-eastern slope edge, individual remains of the wall can still be recognized as such; at the edge of the eastern corner, a large section of the wall about 7 m long and 4 m high. On the north-western slope of the hill there are only the slightest traces of former masonry.
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 5, Tübingen 1901, p. 159 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .