Waldenstein Castle
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg in spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, ministers, counts | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid | |
| Place: | Rudersberg -Waldenstein | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 53 '25.8 " N , 9 ° 33' 20.7" E | |
| Height: | 385 m above sea level NN | |
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The Castle Waldstein is the ruin of a Spur castle on a against the Wieslauftal expiring 385 m above sea level. NN high mountain spur in the Waldenstein district of the municipality of Rudersberg in the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle was built around 1200 by the Lords of Waldenstein, presumably Staufer Reichsministeriale . These are documented for the first time - already in the service of Württemberg - in 1251 (last mention in 1349). In 1442 the people of Württemberg, who established the Rudersberg office from the places belonging to the rulership in the 15th century, pledged the castle or, after 1456, gave it to noble and middle-class families as a fief . In 1535 the facility was called dilapidated; an old and a new castle are mentioned in 1650. In 1792 the municipality of Rudersberg bought the castle and the associated property. In 1819 a fire partially destroyed the building.
description
The castle complex had castle buildings in the valley spur with a shield wall and a two-story stone house with Staufer humpback ashlar masonry , of which parts of the medieval defensive wall are still preserved.
Today there is a castle restaurant on the former castle grounds.
literature
- Gerhard Fritz, Roland Schurig (ed.): The castles in the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Verlag Manfred Hennecke, Remshalden 1994, ISBN 3-927981-42-7 , pp. 96-98.
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , here p. 846.
Web links
- Waldenstein Castle at stuttgart-tourist.de
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