Castle Hill (Steinheim)
| Castle Hill | ||
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 Castle hill with viewing platform |
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| height | 286 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Steinheim an der Murr ; District of Ludwigsburg , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 57 '50 " N , 9 ° 17' 42" E | |
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| particularities | Castle of the Lords of Steinheim | |
The castle hill is about 286 m above sea level. NHN high elevation of the Neckar basin . It is located near Steinheim an der Murr in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg .
On a spur of the elevation is the castle stables of the castle of the Lords of Steinheim . Slopes are used for viticulture.
geography
location
The castle hill is located 1.2 km east of Steinheim an der Murr . The Neckar tributary Murr (altitude 198.1 m ) flows past directly to the south, and is fed by the Otterbach mountain to the south , by the small Dienstbach to the west and by the Bottwar in Steinheim to the west .
Natural allocation
The Burgberg belongs to the natural area main unit group Neckar- and Tauber-Gäuplatten (No. 12), in the main unit Neckar basin (123) and in the subunit Waiblinger Bucht (123.2) to the natural area Inner Backnanger Bay (123.30). The landscape leads to the west and northwest into the natural area of Pleidelsheimer Mulde (123.32).
Mountain height
The height of the approximately 286 m high castle hill is sometimes given as around 285 m , which refers to a trigonometric point that can be seen on topographic maps and is located a few meters southwest of the mountain peak at a height of 284.9 m .
Landscape protection
The valleys to the east, south and south-west of the castle hill and the lower areas of its partially wooded flanks belong to the Lower Murrtal landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 325347; designated 1989; 3.64 km² in size).
fauna
On the south side of the mountain towards Murrtal, in Gewann Steinberg , there are two former quarries and a large area of dry stone walls . Due to the new construction work on the Stuttgart-Ulm railway line as part of the Stuttgart 21 construction project , Deutsche Bahn AG contracted with the city of Steinheim in 2013 that up to 300 sand lizards would be relocated to this area from the affected construction sites.
history
Castle of the Lords of Steinheim
A castle from the early Middle Ages stood on a spur on the southern flank of the castle hill at a height of about 248 m . The gentlemen of Steinheim on the one hand, but also the gentlemen of Blankenstein on the other are mentioned as owners . The castle was built around the year 800 during the Carolingian era and was first mentioned in the 12th century. Around the year 1250, it is already considered destroyed. During the land consolidation in 1973, remnants of the walls of this castle were found. A viewing platform was then built on the mountain with a view of the Murrtal, among other things.
At this point, in addition to the redesign with walls and benches, a monument with bronze plaques was erected to commemorate the castle and its history. The following is recorded there: “The castle of the Lords of Steinheim used to stand here. The local nobility was used by the Merovingians (Franconian royal family) around 500 AD. The castle itself was built around 800 AD and was one of the early medieval castles of the Carolingian era. It was a small fortified castle (Burgstall) and a waiting room. The castle was destroyed in the fighting between Staufenkaiser Friedrich II and the Pope around 1250. In the same century, the noble family in Steinheim died out. His last representatives were Albert von Steinheim and his daughter Elisabeth von Blankenstein , founder of the Marienthal monastery in Steinheim. "
Agriculture and viticulture
The top of the castle hill is used for agriculture, with its upper slopes being characterized by vineyards . These layers used to reach far down into the valleys. Today there are still large dry stone walls on the Murrtal side, which are well preserved and have to be renewed again and again - for example in 2010.
traffic
The state road 1126 runs south past the castle hill, which leads from Steinheim an der Murr in a south-easterly direction and from there via the district road 1605 to Erdmannhausen and via the L 1124 to Rielingshausen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information )
- ^ Friedrich Huttenlocher , Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 170 Stuttgart. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1949, revised 1967. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Article Asylum for S 21 lizards ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), from October 25, 2012, on lkz.de
- ^ Entry on Steinheim (Burgberg) in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 17, 2015.
- ↑ Article 20 tons of stones for the dry stone walls on Burgberg , for wall renovation (2010), from October 15, 2010, on stadt-steinheim.de