Teck Castle

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Teck Castle
Teck Castle - front view from north-west with the Sibyllenloch cave

Teck Castle - front view from north-west with the Sibyllenloch cave

Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Modern buildings on medieval foundations and retaining walls
Standing position : Allodium with local ducal dignity
Construction: Small cuboid, cuboid and hump cuboid masonry
Place: Owen
Geographical location 48 ° 35 '17 "  N , 9 ° 28' 14"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '17 "  N , 9 ° 28' 14"  E
Height: 773  m above sea level NN
Teck Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Teck Castle

The Burg Teck is a 773 meter high hilltop castle south of the town of Kirchheim unter Teck in Baden-Wuerttemberg . At the end of the 19th century, an observation tower was built on the medieval ruins , which was followed in the 20th century by an event hall and a hiking home of the Swabian Alb Association .

Geographical location

The castle stands on the Teckberg am Albtrauf above the Lauter valley , which flows into the Neckar . It belongs to the district of the city of Owen and borders the municipality of Bissingen an der Teck . Both have belonged to the Esslingen district since 1973 . The Sibyllenloch is located in the rock below the castle .

history

The earliest mention of Teck Castle can be found in a contract of 1152 between Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and Duke Konrad von Zähringen . The Zähringer originally had their main property in the area around Teck and from 1187 left the remaining property in this area to a younger sideline, which then called itself the Dukes of Teck . Due to financial difficulties, they sold half of their castle to the Habsburgs in 1303 and the other half to the Counts of Württemberg in 1381 . In the 15th century, the dukes of Teck died out, and their title of duke passed to the previous counts of Württemberg in 1495.

The old castle was completely destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 .

Under Duke Karl Alexander von Württemberg , the castle ruins were to be expanded into a modern fortress . Work began in 1736 but ended in 1737 with the Duke's death. Since 1738 some of the unfinished new buildings have been demolished. From then on the Teck remained a ruin .

However, the luster of the old name Teck remained. In the 19th century, Duke Alexander, nephew of King Frederick I, married a countess who was unequal . The son Franz, born in 1837, was excluded from the line of succession and received the rank of prince in return, and in 1871 that of Duke of Teck. Duke Franz married Princess Mary, a granddaughter of the British King George III. The daughter, Maria von Teck , became the wife of King George V and thus brought the name Teck into the titulature of the British royal family.

Todays use

Restaurant in the courtyard of the castle
The Teckturm around 1900 on a postcard

In 1889 a lookout tower with an attached shelter was built on the foundations of the keep and inaugurated on September 1, 1889. In 1933 an event hall was built next to the Teckturm and called the "Mörikehalle". Since June 6, 1941, the facility has been owned by the Swabian Alb Association , which in 1954/1955 converted the Mörikehalle into a hiking home with a restaurant and bedrooms. In 1955 the 31 m high observation tower, which had been dangerous up to then, was brought into its present state.

On November 9, 1999, the area around the castle was declared a Teck nature reserve.

In May 2010, a tower stump from the Hohenstaufen era crashed; it was secured in 2013 but not rebuilt in its original form.

literature

  • 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. 95-108.

Web links

Commons : Burg Teck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of Teck - Reconstruction on teckblicker.de
  2. ^ Burg Teck, at Owen unter Teck on the website of the Swabian Alb Association (data and facts)
  3. ↑ Historical loss on the Teck in Der Teckbote from December 5, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2015