Schatzberg Castle
| Schatzberg Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Treasure castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1267 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Place: | Langenenslingen- Gelfingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 8 '30.5 " N , 9 ° 18' 2.9" E | |
| Height: | 703 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Schatzberg , also Schatzenburg called, is the ruin of a Spur castle at Egelfingen, in the municipality of Langenenslingen in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg . The former castle complex had a curtain wall with a thickness of 0.9 meters and a keep with a base area of 9.5 by 7.5 meters and a wall thickness of 2 meters.
Geographical location
The ruin is on the extreme border against Sigmaringen , at 703 m above sea level. NN high spur very high with a wide view to the south to the Alps .
history
The construction of the castle cannot be documented, but knight Konrad von Hornstein zu Schatzberg was the first to be mentioned in a document as early as 1250.
Schatzberg Castle formed part of the knighthood of Wilflingen and was associated with its own property, which was left to the leeches for an annual validity; a large area of forest also belonged to the castle. The farm estates were fallen or inherited . The knighthood of Wilflingen were vassals of the Counts of Veringen .
The Schatzberg Castle was next to the Bittelschieß and Hertenstein castles, the third castle in the immediate vicinity of the Hornstein ancestral castle , on which the side branches of the Lord von Hornstein family sat at the same time .
The lords of Hornstein zu Schatzberg also called themselves von Wülflingen, as the village of Wülflingen belonged to Schatzberg. Contrary to the other Hornstein line, the Schatzbergers were rather feudal.
Line of the Hornstein to Schatzberg
Knight Konrad von Schatzberg (1250–1267) was a feudal man of Count Hartmann I von Grüningen . Johannes, Knight of Schatzberg (1282-1323) called von Wülflingen, was the judge of the Heiligenberg count's rights and in 1313 had Schatzberg as an Austrian fief. Peter von Hornstein (brother of Johannes) was a knight (1286 to 1315). He owned goods in Altheim (near Riedlingen) , Andelfingen and Hitzkofen . Another brother, Hermann von Hornstein (1293-1333), was lord of the church in Blochingen , Seekirch and owned goods in Riedlingen , Grüningen , Altheim (near Riedlingen) and Heudorf near Meßkirch .
Heinrich von Hornstein zu Wilflingen, was probably 1327-1350 owner of Schatzberg. His son, Hans III. von Hornstein zu Schatzberg (1339–1412) also had a share in Hornstein Castle. He sold Hasenweiler and Ilmensee . Through his feuds with the Geroldseckers , which according to Zimmer's chronicle were a very restless family, he was able to improve his financial situation significantly. In 1385 Hans zu Schatzberg became a citizen of the city of Rottweil for 5 years . He opened his Schatzberg fortress and lived in Wilflingen in 1394.
On September 21, 1400, Duke Leopold von Oesterreich and Hans zu Schatzberg agreed on access to the church in Bingen (Büngen). Hans von Schatzberg was married to Agnes von Neuneck, daughter of Volz von Neuneck (Glatten) zu Neckarburg .
Hans IV. Von Hornstein zu Schatzberg (son of Hans III.) Was mentioned from 1399-1440.
Heinrich v. Hornstein, Hansens III. Son, sat at Hornstein and was married to Agnes von Seckendorf. He bought the tower at Hornstein.
Jos von Hornstein zu Schatzberg (1438–1485) was a son of Hans IV and the last knight at Schatzberg Castle. At the same time as the Schatzberg Castle, Jos still held the important pledge of Hohenberg Castle near Spaichingen . Jos inherited the paternal property of the fortress Schatzberg with Egelfingen and the goods in Langenenslingen , which remained after the sale of Wülflingen and Emerfeld . The Schatzbergs served the Dukes of Austria with their festivals. The life of the knight Jos zu Schalksberg, who was married to Anna von Rechberg , was mostly in feuds; he always tried to get justice to himself and others with his sword. Together with Konrad Scharpf von Freudenberg and a few other knights, he attacked the bishop of Augsburg . The bishop found help from the emperor, who commissioned Count Ludwig and Ulrich von Württemberg to support the bishop. They let the fortress Schatzberg, from which the attack had occurred, burn down by Count Friedrich von Helfenstein . A siege or a defense of the fortress does not seem to have taken place, since Konrad von Hornstein, a cousin of Jos, complains that the castle was burned down when Jos was defenseless. From then on, Jos led a very unsteady life. He sold the remains of his property (Schatzberg castle stalls) to his cousin Konrad von Hornstein. In 1455 Jos came under the imperial ban and was still in it in 1461. Jos von Hornstein zu Schatzberg was a brave, fearless knight, he always tried to use his sword to secure justice for himself and others. In 1458 the nuns in Sonnenberg in Tyrol called Jos for help, who felt harassed. Jos was captured by Cardinal Quasa's bailiff. Freed again, Jos followed the call of his cousin Hug, who had got into a feud with Berthold von Stain . Jos, who spent most of the last years of his life in Switzerland, had an accident in a feud against the Counts of Werdenberg and Heiligenberg and was killed on the Dominican Island near Konstanz. It cannot be determined whether he was killed by murder or fighting.
Jos and his son Wendel had disturbed the Lake Constance area, which the city of Constance was very unhappy with and because of Jos exchanged letters with the city of Zurich . Jos von Hornstein found his resting place in the Magdenau monastery near St. Gallen. He was married to Anna von Rechberg, who documented her for the last time in 1453.
The Schatzberg line with Wendel, son Jos, has expired.
In 1454 Jos von Hornstein, the son of Hans IV., Sold the destroyed Schatzberg fortress to his cousin Konrad von Hornstein zu Grüningen. It came to Georg I von Hornstrin through his daughter. Hertenstein zu Grüningen, who sold it in 1487 to the Sigmaringer Vogt Hans von Mulfingen. Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg acquired the property in 1538, which from then on remained with this family.
The legend of "Hans Hödiö"
The legend of "Hans Hödiö" probably goes back to Hans III. 1339 to 1412, who was known through his feuds with the Geroldseckern. She says that the treasure castle hid a wealth of looted treasures in its vaults and cellars.
Hans Hödiö was a knight who made because of his evil way of life, heavily laden with debt Welschland was expelled. He came to the German district and built a rock house for himself between Hitzkofen and Egelfingen in one of the dense forest grounds. From there he went on his raids through cities, villages and numerous castles.
For these projects he gathered many loyal people around him, with whom he set out on raids, robbery and looting. He made the peasants on the farms poor because he robbed them of all their belongings. No hiker was safe from him either. Even the castles Hornstein, Dietfurt and Wildenstein were not spared from looting. People trembled when they heard the knight's cry of terror, "Hödiö". Then they knew that the wild robber was up to mischief with his helpers.
When the distress in the country increased through him, a band of the noblest knights came together under the leadership of Count Wolfrad von Veringen . They stormed the enemy, his castle, called Schatzberg, which he had built soon after the rock house. The castle burned down, the walls collapsed over the lord of the castle. And the gate and the tower followed in wild confusion. Hans Hödiö and his fellow murderers could not save themselves. They had to end miserably.
Since that day, however, the nocturnal hikers have noticed how a will-o'-the-wisp circles around Schatzberg's walls. At the same time, from far and wide, they hear the gruesome call of the knight "Hödiö", who beats himself against the echo of the rocks and the people whisper fearfully: "Hans Hödiö is going around!"
literature
General
- Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 422-424.
- Josef Härle: From the former Schatzberg Castle. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat 1958, page 52f. [1]
- 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 .
- Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 2: Alb Mitte-Süd - hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 315-320.
- Stefan Uhl: The castle ruins Schatzberg. In: Local history sheets for the Biberach district. Volume 6, issue 2, page 12ff. [2]
Literature on the legend of Hans Hödiö
- M. Lehmann: Wolfrat von Veringen. A story from the time of the downfall of the Hohenstaufen. Published by Lampart & Comp., Augsburg and Leipzig, 1857. [3]
- Maria E. Flad: The knight Hans Hödiö. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat. Published by the Association for History, Culture and Regional Studies in Hohenzollern. No. 4; 7th year; Gammertingen October 1957. p. 54.
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger : Description of the Oberamt Riedlingen / Chapter B 16
- ^ Josef Härle: The Counts of Hornstein. P. 159 ff.
- ↑ Walter Bleicher: The castles of those von Hornstein and Hertenstein (PDF) In: BC Heimatkundliche Blätter for the district of Biberach . Society for home care in the city and district of Biberach e. V .. Retrieved January 31, 2019.