Ehrenstein Castle Rest
| Ehrenstein Castle Rest | ||
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 The castle rest in 2011 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Erichstein | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Construction: | Humpback block masonry | |
| Place: | Blaustein -Ehrenstein | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 25 '0.5 " N , 9 ° 55' 16.5" E | |
| Height: | 536 m above sea level NN | |
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Burgrest Ehrenstein refers to the ruins of a rock castle at 536 m above sea level. NN high "Löwenfelsen" in the district of Ehrenstein in the municipality of Blaustein in the Alb-Danube district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle was built in the 12th century, Eberhard von Erichstain is mentioned in the Zwiefalter Chronicle around 1137/38 . The castle was probably an imperial fiefdom of the Counts of Dillingen , between 1209 and 1216 Heinrich von Ehrenstein was a fiefdom holder of the Dillingen Counts. Around the year 1220, the castle was then extended or rebuilt with humpback ashlar masonry .
In 1259, the Counts of Dillingen sold the castle to the Counts of Helfenstein , who in turn later sold it to the House of Württemberg . The Söflingen monastery acquired Ehrenstein Castle from the Württemberg people .
The castle complex was destroyed between 1280 and 1290, only the castle chapel , first mentioned in 1275 , which stood a little outside the complex, remained. In the following centuries, however, the chapel fell into disrepair, because in 1718 it was said: How dilapidated, how miserable and with what great worrying dangers the church at Ehrenstein is . Shortly afterwards, in 1724, it was also canceled.
Only the remains of the wall remain from the former castle.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 2 - Alb Middle-South: Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 9-12.
- 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 .