Burgrest Alt-Heiligenberg

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Burgrest Alt-Heiligenberg
At the disturbed neck ditch

At the disturbed neck ditch

Alternative name (s): Castle mountains
Creation time : probably 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, foundation walls and moats preserved
Standing position : Count
Place: Frickingen
Geographical location 47 ° 49 '39 .7 "  N , 9 ° 17' 42.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49  '39.7 " N , 9 ° 17' 42.7"  E
Height: 726.7  m above sea level NN
Burgrest Alt-Heiligenberg (Baden-Württemberg)
Burgrest Alt-Heiligenberg

Burgrest Alt-Heiligenberg refers to the ruins of a spur castle in place of today's viewing pavilion at 726.7  m above sea level. NN near the community of Heiligenberg in the Frickingen district in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg .

location

The Burgrest Alt-Heiligenberg is traditionally assigned to Heiligenberg, but is located in the district of Frickingen. It lies on a spur that slopes steeply on three sides and protrudes towards the southwest over the Salem Basin.

history

The castle was probably built in the 12th century by the Counts of Heiligenberg, who established their seat here and made it the center of Linzgau and its county of Heiligenberg . This sex was first mentioned in the period between the years 1051 and 1069 with a Heinrich de Sancto Monte (= from the holy mountain). The castle itself can only be proven in the year 1163, when in a description of the place the location of a place " prope castellum quod vocatur Berge, in qou C. Constantienensis advocatus, et frater suus comes H. habitant ", so under the mountains named castle, in which Konrad, Vogt in Konstanz, and his father, Count Heinrich lives.

Around the middle of the 13th century, the counts built another castle, Neu-Heiligenberg . It is named as novo castro Sancti Monte (= new castle of the Holy Mountain) in 1276. The Alt-Heiligenberg Castle was not given up afterwards, however, as it was still called in 1307 and 1309 as "Sancto Monte castro antiqou" (= Alt-Heiligenberg Castle).

From the area of ​​the castle there are known finds from medieval and prehistoric pottery shards, but also a Celtic spout arrowhead.

investment

Tower remnant

The roughly triangular remains of the castle lies on a spur and was protected by the slopes of the spur and a deep ditch . The southeastern part of the Halsgraben was severely disturbed in the 19th century by the layout of Karl-Egon-Platz , but it is still easy to see. The neck ditch is followed by a disturbed area that forms a kind of outer bailey. Adjoining this area is a tower hill that extends over the entire width of the complex. The funnel-shaped remnant of the tower has a roughly rectangular shape and is about 15 meters wide. Wall remains are exposed in the remains of the tower. Younger paths run around the entire complex, so that precise statements about the original shape are currently not possible.

literature

  • Ernst Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar: Heiligenberg Castle. (= Great Art Guide. No. 87). 2nd Edition. Munich / Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-7954-0830-X .
  • Michael Losse (Ed.): Castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications on northern Lake Constance. Volume 1.1: Western part around Sipplingen, Überlingen, Heiligenberg and Salem . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-191-1 , pp. 55-59.
  • Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district . Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (=  Fund reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14 ). 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-510-49114-9 , pp. 543-545 .

Web links

Commons : Burgrest Alt-Heiligenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district . Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (=  Fund reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14 ). 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-510-49114-9 , pp. 543-545 .
  2. ↑ Uwe Frank ao: castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications on northern Lake Constance . Ed .: Michael Losse (=  series of publications of the Nellenburger Kreis . Volume 1.1 ). 1st edition. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-191-1 , p. 55-59 .