Sulzburg Castle (Lautertal)

Sulzburg
View from Friedrichsfels to the castle hill and castle
Creation time :	around 1300 to 1395
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Quarry stone and ashlar masonry
Place:	Lenningen -Unterlenningen
Geographical location	48 ° 33 '41 "  N , 9 ° 27' 25.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '41 "  N , 9 ° 27' 25.8"  E
Height:	492  m above sea level NN

The Sulzburg is the ruin of a late medieval spur castle near Unterlenningen in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The ruin is 492  m above sea level. NN above the Lautertal . From Unterlenningen you can comfortably reach it in about a quarter of an hour. From here the view goes down into the Lenninger Valley.

history

The Sulzburg has appeared in documents since the 14th century . The first known owners were the lords of Neidlingen . From around 1395 the Sulzburg was a Württemberg fiefdom of a branch of the Lords of Speth .

During the Thirty Years' War , the castle was occupied and destroyed by imperial troops, but then rebuilt.

After the Speth had died out, in 1650 Philipp Ludwig von Cannstatt received the Sulzburg as a fief. His daughters sold the facility in 1693 for 4,500 guilders to the Duchess Magdalena Sibylle , the widow of Duke Wilhelm Ludwig , who lived in Kirchheim . An old bailiff lived upstairs until around 1700 , then the long-dilapidated walls became uninhabitable.

In 1966/67 the ruin was secured and partially rebuilt.

description

Wall remains of the inner castle

The Gothic in its core fortress had a bailey with a strong defensive wall and gate and one of a kennel surrounded main castle in the inner area the remnants of the old 13.6 by 4.2 meter Palas and the new 17.2 by 9.8 meters large hall. The surrounding walls of the castle complex are still preserved.

literature

• Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 596.
• Christoph Bizer, Wilhelm Gradmann: Castles and palaces of the Swabian Alb . 3. Edition. DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1994, ISBN 3-87181-284-6 , pp. 48-49.
• Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 4 - Alb Mitte-Nord: Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 119–128.

Web links

Commons : Burg Sulzburg (Lautertal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the castle complex at burgen-web.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ According to the original documents in the State Archives Ludwigsburg GL 155 Bü 71, a preliminary contract was signed in 1672. The final purchase contract, however, only dates from 1693.