Hütting Castle
| Hütting Castle | ||
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 Hütting castle ruins - view of the east side |
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| Creation time : | around 1060 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Rennertshofen - Hütting | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 47 '58.1 " N , 11 ° 6' 13.4" E | |
| Height: | 440 m above sea level NHN | |
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The ruins of the high to late medieval Hütting Castle are at a steep 440 m above sea level. NHN high rock reef high above the Rennertshofener district of Hütting in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in Upper Bavaria . Apart from a wall of the former palace, only traces of the terrain have survived from the Spornburg .
history
The fortress was laid out around 1060 by the Counts of Lechsgemünd . The administration was entrusted to a family of servants who later named themselves after the castle. The Lords of Hütting sat on the castle rock until 1342. After the death of the last count, the county fell to the dukes of Bavaria.
The dukes used the rule several times as a pledge. Around 1421/22 the castle was burned down in one of the numerous conflicts between the Bavarian partial duchies and then abandoned.
The abandoned castle served as a welcome quarry for the villagers for the next few centuries. In the 19th century, the last remnants of the curtain wall collapsed . At the end of the 20th century, the remainder of the palace was preserved.
description
The main castle apparently consisted mainly of a small residential tower or hall on a rock head, which forms the end of a land spur protruding to the east. To the west was a small outer bailey. Here the foundations of an almost square building can be traced.
Both parts of the castle are separated by a flattened section ditch. The neck ditch in front of the outer bailey is also largely leveled.
The east wall of the main building is still around seven to eight meters high and is broken through by five window openings. The southeast corner of the building has also been preserved. The masonry is about a meter thick and consists of irregular rubble stones .
The ruins are enthroned in a spectacular location on the Jura massif. To the north, south and east the castle rock drops almost vertically into the valley, an ascent is only possible from the west.
The small ruined castle at the entrance to the Wellheimer dry valley belongs together with its neighboring castle Wellheim to the lesser-known fortifications in Bavaria that are rarely dealt with in specialist literature.
Geotope
The castle rock has been designated as an important geotope by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (Geotope number: 185R010).
literature
- Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 191-193 .
- Georg Dehio (greeting), Ernst Götz (editing): Munich and Upper Bavaria ( Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ; Vol. 4). 3rd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-422-03115-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotope Burgfelsen in Hütting (accessed on October 19, 2017).
Web links
- Hütting castle ruins at burgseite.de
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
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