Tailfingen Castle

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Tailfingen Castle
Front summit of the castle rock, on which the castle tower presumably stood

Front summit of the castle rock, on which the castle tower presumably stood

Alternative name (s): Tailfinger lock
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, mountain corner
Conservation status: small remains, embankment, ditch
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Small ashlar masonry
Place: Albstadt - Tailfingen
Geographical location 48 ° 15 '4.1 "  N , 9 ° 1' 33.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '4.1 "  N , 9 ° 1' 33.7"  E
Height: 937  m above sea level NN
Tailfingen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Tailfingen Castle

The castle Tailfingen , even Tailfinger Castle called, the rest is a hilltop castle on the 937  m above sea level. NN high Schlossberg about 1000 meters southeast of the Tailfingen district of the city of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

Part of the castle rock adjoining the front rock

history

The castle was probably built by the Lords of Tailfingen before 1100 and abandoned before 1250. Nothing more is known about the builders and residents of the castle. It can be assumed that the Tailfinger gentlemen also had a local castle near the Peterskirche. The gentlemen are only mentioned in the 14th century. The castle, which had not been inhabited for a long time, was finally abandoned when Count Friedrich V, known as "Mülli", sold the Schalksburg and with it Tailfingen in 1403 to the people of Württemberg .

description

The castle stood on the Tailfinger castle rock, which slopes steeply in a north-westerly direction. The other sides of the castle hill are enclosed by a small wall and a subsequent moat. The entire system was about 80 meters long and 50 meters wide. The former castle complex had a core castle with a Romanesque castle chapel and a bailey . The Oberamtsbeschreibung from 1880 describes the remains of the castle at that time as follows: "On the rocky corner lie rubble of a stone house 22 paces long and 16 paces wide (approx. 7x5 meters) with a tower pushed forward to the extreme corner, which was also destroyed." Apse - foundation walls of the castle chapel exposed, which immediately adjoined the tower to the west. The traces still visible today are all attributable to the medieval complex. Regardless, it was on the Schlossberg a Outbound, prehistoric height or Fliehburg . It is assumed that it belonged to the settlement of the Degerfeld.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 77-80.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 176-178.
  • Christoph Morrissey: Albstadt-Tailfingen: The castle rock . In the S. (Ed.): Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany, Volume 43: Zollernalbkreis . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1763-7 , pp. 130-132.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 277-282.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 68-69.
  • Hermann Bizer: Tailfinger Heimatbuch . Second unchanged edition 1987 self-published by the family of the late Dr. Hermann Bizer, Albstadt.