Triberg Castle

Triberg Castle
	Castle area
Creation time :	around 1325
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Triberg
Geographical location	48 ° 7 '47 " N , 8 ° 13' 56.3" E Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '47 " N , 8 ° 13' 56.3" E

The castle Triberg is the ruin of a Spur castle on a mountain ridge in the southeast of the city of Triberg in the Black Forest-Baar in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

Little is known about the exact time when the castle on the Gutach was built , at the foot of which the town of Triberg developed in the first half of the 14th century. Above all, it is uncertain whether the castle already existed at the beginning of the 13th century or whether it was only built after the division of the Hornberg rulership around 1200 into the two independent rulers (New) Hornberg and Triberg.

In 1239 the name Triberg was first mentioned in a document. On the document about a legal transaction between Count Berthold von Neuenburg and the Basel Bishop Lüthold , Ministeriale Peter von Triberc appeared as the last of the 15 witnesses. The castle complex was possibly built by Burkhard I. von Triberg. The castle was owned by a sideline of the Lords of Hornberg . With the extinction of the Triberg line, the "stat und burg ze Triberg" came to the Counts of Hohenberg . In 1355 the rule was bought by Duke Albrecht II of Austria , a Habsburg , and in 1654 it finally fell to Austria ( Vorderösterreich ).

The castle was pledged several times by the Habsburgs (1372 to the margraves of Baden , 1493 to the counts of Fürstenberg and in the 16th century to the Freiburg lawyer Ulrich Zasius and the field captain Lazarus von Schwendi ). In 1489 it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt. The castle was once again destroyed by flames in 1525 during the German Peasants' War . Insurgent Black Forest farmers and citizens were the arsonists. It had to be rebuilt by labor . In 1616 it was partially destroyed again and finally during the Thirty Years' War during the Christmas days of 1642 by Swedish soldiers.

The floor plan and a pillar of the former castle complex were uncovered in 1934 by excavating some of the wall remains. Triberg Castle is now a sparse ruin with remains of walls in the so-called "Castle Garden" near the Kurhaus.

literature

Franz Xaver Kraus (editor), edited by Franz Xaver Kraus: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Großherzogthums Baden , Freiburg 1890, Volume II - Kreis Villingen; P. 63 ( digitized version of 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 .
Karl Volk: The Triberg Castle . In: Castles and palaces in Central Baden / Historical Association for Central Baden. Ed .: Hugo Schneider - Offenburg, 1984, pp. 436–438 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Karl Lienhard: Castle and Castle Triberg . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 50th annual volume 1970, pp. 402-410 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Konrad Kaltenbach: Hornberg Castle . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Issue 21: Castles and Palaces of Central Baden. 1934, pp. 468–474 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Web links

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