Castle rooms (rooms under the castle)

Castle rooms
Creation time :	probably 12th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, only trenches, remains of foundations and wall rubble have been preserved
Standing position :	Ministerial Headquarters
Construction:	Small ashlar masonry
Place:	Rooms under the castle - "Burgstall"
Geographical location	48 ° 13 '3.3 "  N , 8 ° 42' 42.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '3.3 "  N , 8 ° 42' 42.3"  E
Height:	670  m above sea level NN

The castle rooms is an abandoned ministerial seat at 670  m above sea level. NN high "Burgstall" in the municipality of Zimmer under the castle in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The castle site of the Spornburg is about 650 meters southwest of the church of Zimmer on a narrow, elongated mountain ridge or mountain spur, the so-called "Burgstall". To the north the spur falls into the basin of the Wiesentalbach, to the south to the valley of the Schwarderbach, which flows into the Schwarzenbach valley below the castle. The tip of the north-east facing mountain spur falls moderately steeply towards the village of Zimmer. Thus, the castle was naturally well protected on three sides, only the southwest side, which merges into the adjacent plateau, had to be protected. Today's border between Zollernalbkreis and Rottweil district runs through the castle's neck ditch.

history

The early history of the castle lies in the darkness of history; it is assumed that it is the seat of the local carpenter nobility. It is not known under which rule the place and the castle were at that time. From the 14th century it was the Counts of Sulz who owned the place, but the castle no longer existed in their time.

The castle was built during the 12th century, in 1275 the place was mentioned for the first time as Cimbri , although this mention could also refer to rooms near Rottweil . Further mentions were made in 1314, at a time when the castle was probably already destroyed, as it was called Broken Rooms at that time. The name Brochenzimmer from the period between 1318 and 1334 also testifies to an abandoned castle; It is not known whether it was destroyed in an act of war or whether it was given up as a residence because of the extinction of the castle nobility or for other reasons.

description

The hilltop castle on the ridge was divided into two areas: a bailey immediately after the neck ditch , and a main castle , separated from it by another ditch. The main castle in turn could have been divided into an upper castle and a lower castle. The area of ​​the castle complex was about 110 meters in length and only 14 meters in width.

The 14 meter long neck ditch, which separates the castle area from the rising plateau, ran across the ridge and is up to 7 meters deep. Traces of building can only be made out with difficulty in the adjoining outer bailey. In addition to later changes to the terrain and quarries that cut into the long sides, remains of the foundations have been preserved directly towards the neck ditch. They could have come from a building that protected the castle from the foreground.

The second trench separated the main castle, this section trench is about four meters deep. This part of the castle has a keel-shaped area, there you can still find several remains of foundations and rubble, the remains of the former curtain wall . Other remnants of the wall are small cuboids that can be found on the slope of the mountain spur. To the north of the main castle, about 15 meters lower than this, there is a slope terrace. Trees and hollows suggest a lower castle, but could also come from a later time.

literature

• Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis District Office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 318-320.
• Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 266-267.

References and comments

1. ↑ This emerges from the dating of ceramic finds by Christoph Bizer: Surface finds from castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research , p. 267
2. ↑ It is also fitting that Bizer did not find ceramics from a later period
3. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 319