Wiesneck Castle
| Wiesneck Castle | |
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 Wiesneck castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | before 1079 |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle |
| Conservation status: | ruin |
| Standing position : | Count |
| Place: | Buchenbach- Wiesneck |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 58 '0.6 " N , 8 ° 0' 3.3" E |
| Height: | 537 m above sea level NN |
Wiesneck Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 537 m above sea level. NN in the Wiesneck district of Buchenbach in the southern Black Forest in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg .
location
The ruin is located in the Zartener Basin at the entrance to the Höllental , Wagensteig and Unteribental . The castle was strategically located on the road that led through the valley of the Wagensteigbach up to the Thurner .
The town of Wiesneck had formed around the castle early on and was incorporated into Buchenbach in 1837.
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1079 and was owned by the Counts of Haigerloch . In 1096, Count Adalbert von Haigerloch named himself for the first time after the castle as von Haigerloch-Wiesneck . The castle was built on the edge of the dominant Zähringer territory and so the lords of the castle developed into their competitors.
In 1118 Bruno von Haigerloch-Wiesneck founded the St. Märgen Monastery . Before 1121 the castle was destroyed by the Zähringers, but was soon rebuilt. The family of the Counts of Haigerloch-Wiesneck died out around 1170, so that the castle and the property fell to the Counts of Hohenberg , who sold the castle complex to Burkhard Turner in 1293 . In 1318 the castle went to the Schnewlin von Landeck and in 1372 to the Blumenegger . The Schnewlin von Landeck bought one half of the castle back in 1450/51, the other half followed after 1460.
During the Peasants' War the castle complex was overrun and destroyed by a bunch of rebellious farmers under Hans von Bulgenbach , but parts of it were soon rebuilt.
In 1577 it passed to the barons of Sickingen-Hohenburg . During the Thirty Years' War the castle was destroyed by the French in 1644. The castle subsequently served as a quarry for the area.
investment
Apart from the entrance area, only a few remains of the walls of the castle are preserved today. However, the remnants of the outer bailey , main bailey and palas can still clearly be seen that it was one of the larger castle complexes in the region.
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6, Tübingen 1904, pp. 286–288 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz : The castles in medieval Breisgau, 1st northern part, half volume AK . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-7364-X , pp. 66–71.
- Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 54–58.
Web links
- Entry on Wiesneck in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Wiesneck - living space at leo-bw.de
- Wiesneck - Wiesneck Castle at breisgau-burgen.de
- Wiesneck Castle at burgenarchiv.de
- Wiesneck Castle at alemannische-seiten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Rombach: Unknown Dreisamtal . Self-published, Stegen, ISBN 978-3-00-018926-5 .