Zuzenhausen Castle

Zuzenhausen Castle
Remains of Zuzenhausen Castle
Creation time :	around 1250
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	Ruin, remains of the wall
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Zuzenhausen
Geographical location	49 ° 17 '44 "  N , 8 ° 49' 42"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '44 "  N , 8 ° 49' 42"  E
Height:	160  m above sea level NN

The castle Zuzenhausen is the ruins of a hilltop castle at about 160 m above sea level on the southern outskirts of the municipality Zuzenhausen in the Rhine-Neckar region in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was probably built by Ludwig von Huffnen around 1250 and first mentioned in 1286. It can only be seen as an overgrown ruin. The hillside castle is a pentagonal complex with a mighty shield wall , but it probably never had a keep . After several extensions in the middle of the 16th century, the castle was the seat of the Lords of Venningen . In 1637 the Zuzenhausen line of the Lords of Venningen died out, but the castle remained in the family's possession. In the Thirty Years' War the facility was destroyed again in 1643 by the Bavarians and in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689 by the French. The ruin has since been used as a quarry; The residential tower that had been preserved in the middle of the 19th century fell victim to this circumstance . Today the ruins are in poor condition and in danger of collapsing.

literature

• Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .

Web links

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

• Hangburg Zuzenhausen at zuzenhausen.de
• Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun