Untermettingen Castle

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Untermettingen Castle
Untermettingen Castle.JPG
Alternative name (s): Untermettingen Castle, Hunter's House
Creation time : 18th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Main building preserved
Standing position : Barons Klettgau, Counts of Sulz, Lordship of Fürstenberg
Place: Ühlingen-Birkendorf - Untermettingen
Geographical location 47 ° 42 '6.8 "  N , 8 ° 20' 46.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '6.8 "  N , 8 ° 20' 46.8"  E
Untermettingen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Untermettingen Castle

The castle Untermettingen also lock Untermettingen called, is in Steinatal in Untermettingen , a district of Ühlingen-Birkendorf in the district of Waldshut .

location

The hilltop castle sits enthroned on a protruding rock spur about 20 meters above the Steina in the center of Untermettingen. Should already at the important Steinaübergang Roman times a road passed. This ran via Bechtersbohl to Schwerzen via Horheim to Bettmaringen , Wellendingen to Bonndorf .

history

According to a deed of donation from 855, a priest Meginhard handed over his goods in Mettingen to the Rheinau monastery . Wolf von Mettingen also transferred his property to the monastery in 875. In 1279 the brothers Rudolf and Johann von Mettingen are named as lords of the castle. In 1349 the St. George knight Friedrich von Ofteringen is mentioned. In 1427 Heinrich von Erzingen was named as the patron saint, he administered pledged property of the princes of Fürstenberg and lived in the castle in 1437. For six guilders annually in 1462 he acquired the castle and the villages of Obermettingen and Untermettingen as well as Obereggingen, including people and goods, and thus also acquired the castle rights to Schaffhausen . 1599 lived here the Obervogt of the Sulzer Herrschaft Mettingen, Johann Jakob von Beck . In a letter of purchase dated February 1, 1610, Karl Ludwig zu Sulz sells his Mettingen estate to his “dear brother-in-law” Maximilian von Pappenheim , Count of the Landgraviate of Stühlingen . In 1724 it was converted into an agricultural property. Around 1900 the farm was sold to a farmer whose ancestors were in the forestry services of the Princely House.

Modern times

Around 1983 the castle was extensively renovated and is now privately owned.

literature

  • Rudolf Metz : Geological regional studies of the Hotzenwald , 1980
  • Heinz Voellner: The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Rhine , (= publication series Heimat am Hochrhein), ed. v. Hochrhein-Geschichtsverein Waldshut, H. Zimmermann KG, printing and publishing house, Waldshut 1975, p. 65

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Voellner: The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Rhine , (= publication series Heimat am Hochrhein), ed. v. Hochrhein-Geschichtsverein Waldshut, H. Zimmermann KG, printing and publishing house, Waldshut 1975, p. 65
  2. ↑ Hans Matt-Willmatt , among others: Schöne Heimat am Hochrhein, pictures of the people and their work in the district of Waldshut , Im Verlag des Südkurier, 1967, p. 53ff.