Waldangelloch Castle

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Waldangelloch Castle
The castle on the mountain spur above the village

The castle on the mountain spur above the village

Creation time : around 1206
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: two corner towers, neck ditch
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Construction: Truss
Place: Forest fishing hole
Geographical location 49 ° 12 '30 "  N , 8 ° 48' 26.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '30 "  N , 8 ° 48' 26.5"  E
Height: 204  m above sea level NHN
Waldangelloch Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Waldangelloch Castle

The castle Waldangelloch is the residue of a Spur castle on a 204  m above sea level. NHN high mountain spur above the Waldangelloch part of the municipality of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

History and layout

The castle, which was probably built around 1206 by the Counts of Eberstein on the foremost spur of the confluence of the Winkelbach in the Waldangelbach above the village, only shows the remains of the foundations of the ring wall and two corner tower buildings. The castle from the early 13th century was once a pentagonal complex, which was surrounded by a ring wall with four corner towers with a half-timbered structure . A dungeon never owned the plant probably. The Palas was three stories and had a stair tower with snail-shaped spiral staircase. The castle was the seat of the Lords of Angellach until they died out in the early 17th century . After the Thirty Years' War , Duke Friedrich August von Württemberg-Neuenstadt had the castle renovated in 1685, but it no longer served as a manor house. In 1806 the property became the property of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Around 1860 the complex was still largely preserved, albeit in a badly dilapidated condition. Around 1900 the hall, stair tower and outbuildings were torn down. The spiral staircase was preserved and installed in the nearby Buchenauerhof . The area was leveled and temporarily served as a sports field.

  • Corner tower building of the castle

  • Remnants of the castle's foundations

  • Plan of the original plant

literature

  • Hartmut Riehl: Castles and palaces in the Kraichgau . 2nd edition, Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-51-7 , pp. 16-17.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 633.
  • Adolf von Oechelhäuser : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 8.1: The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district), Tübingen 1909, p. 120ff. Available online at Heidelberg University Library, directly to the side

Web links

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