Braunisburg castle remains

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Braunisburg castle remains
The castle rock with a view from the Ursental

The castle rock with a view from the Ursental

Alternative name (s): Neuwartenberg, Lichtwartenberg
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministerialenburg
Place: Mühlheim an der Donau - Ursental
Geographical location 48 ° 1 '45.8 "  N , 8 ° 49' 45.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '45.8 "  N , 8 ° 49' 45.5"  E
Height: 852  m above sea level NN
Castle ruins Bräunisburg (Baden-Württemberg)
Braunisburg castle remains

The remains of the Bräunisburg castle refer to the abandoned Spornburg Neuwartenberg , later referred to as Burg Lichtwartenberg , near Mühlheim an der Donau in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

From the castle built in the 12th or 13th century, only traces of the terrain and rubble remain. The name Bräunisburg is derived from the Bräunisberg ridge on which the Burgstall is located.

The lords of Wartenberg, who occupied the castle with their ministerials , are named as the former owners . In 1394, Neuwartenberg Castle was only referred to as a ruin; between 1411 and 1435 it was owned by the Fürstenberg family as Lichtwartenberg Castle .

description

The castle site is located 852  m above sea level. NN height on a mountain spur facing west above the Ursental . The 3400 square meter complex was divided into a 300 square meter main castle and a much larger outer castle .

About 75 meters in front of the spur tip, the area is cordoned off by a 110 meter long, curved wall. This wall is still 3.5 meters high on the field side and 1.6 meters high on the inside of the castle complex , and ends in the south-east on the steeply sloping mountain slope, in the north in a semicircular ditch that separated the main castle from the outer bailey . A ditch in front of the wall is not visible, but was not absolutely necessary due to the elevation of the castle grounds. The building remains of the outer bailey include an arched stone wall, which connects to the outer wall within the castle area, and a circular stone wall with a diameter of about four meters and a height of half a meter. The stone wall will probably be the former cistern of the castle.

The core castle was on the small rocky tip of the spur, as well as on a slightly lower terrace, which is now used as a lookout rock . Remnants of masonry on the inside of the semicircular bottom ditch are probably the remains of an arched shield wall or a round tower .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Bräunisburg (Neuwartenberg) . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 317-320.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Stuttgart 1978, pp. 84 and 147.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen, p. 319ff.