Wolkenstein Castle (Kochertal)

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Wolkenstein Castle
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, castle hill and moat remains
Place: Sulzbach-Laufen -Altschmiedelfeld
Geographical location 48 ° 57 '45.8 "  N , 9 ° 48' 57"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '45.8 "  N , 9 ° 48' 57"  E
Height: 390  m above sea level NN
Wolkenstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Wolkenstein Castle

The castle Wolkenstein is an Outbound hilltop castle from the type of a motte (moth) at 390  m above sea level. NN near the hamlet of Altschmiedelfeld in the municipality of Sulzbach-Laufen in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

No historical information about the castle is known to this day, it could have been the seat of the Lords of Schmiedelfeld who have been attested since 1172. The headquarters of the Schmiedelfelder were probably originally in the village itself, but from the 12th century they moved their headquarters to the newly built castle about 300 meters south-southwest of the hamlet. From this residence, the royal ministerials probably moved on to the new Schmiedelfeld Castle, today's Schmiedelfeld Castle above Sulzbach-Laufen , during the 13th century .

During the 16th century a sheep farm was built there by the Limpurg rulers, of which it is said around 1660 that the stately "Höflein Wolkenstein" had long been desolate and overgrown with forest.

Only the remains of the castle hill and the moat are left of the former castle complex .

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 240-241.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source history: Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory , p. 241