Sulzburg Castle (Breisgau)

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Sulzburg Castle
Castle site from the west with a ditch in front

Castle site from the west with a ditch in front

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 Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '35.9 "  N , 7 ° 42' 34.2"  E
Height: 380  m above sea level NHN
Sulzburg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Sulzburg Castle

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.

South-eastern wall section remains

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.

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