Lengenfels castle remains

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Lengenfels castle remains
Felskopf with the castle site of the north bastion

Felskopf with the castle site of the north bastion

Alternative name (s): Lengenfels Castle (south castle);
Lengenfels Castle (North Castle)
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Neck ditch, wall remains
Place: Bärenthal
Geographical location 48 ° 3 '40.7 "  N , 8 ° 55' 57.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '40.7 "  N , 8 ° 55' 57.4"  E
Height: 800  m above sea level NN
Castle ruins Lengenfels (Baden-Württemberg)
Lengenfels castle remains

The castle remains of Lengenfels refers to the location of the abandoned Lengenfels Castle in the municipality of Bärenthal in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The castle site of the Spornburg is located around 1100 meters south-southeast of the parish church of Bärenthal in a hilltop position at 800  m above sea level. NN on the limestone formations of the Lengenfelsen above the Bäratal with the eponymous river Bära .

history

Nothing is known about the formation of the castle complex and its end. On the basis of ceramic finds, the foundation of a smaller predecessor complex (north castle) on the massive northern rock head is suspected around 1100. Before 1300 the construction of the southern complex followed in a raised place on the ridge of the Lengenfelsen. Immediately the probable abandonment of the north bastion after landslide and its scheduled demolition in favor of the southern new castle. A lack of historical evidence also does not allow any reliable statement about the founder and rule of the castle. Among the presumed noble families, Hasso von First and Kuno, Berthold and Konrad von Geisingen are named, who at the end of the 11th century owned extensive possessions in and near Bärenthal. Likewise, Count Rudolf Hohenberg, who in 1334 offered his daughter-in-law Ursula von Pfirt the prospect of the Bärenthal pledge.

description

Wall remains on the southeast corner of the inner castle
Main castle hill from the southwest
Wall remains on the steep southern slope of the north castle

The complex is divided into an outer bailey on the southern spur, which also includes the Lengenfels passage cave below, the actual main castle , also called the southern castle, at the highest point on the southern rock ridge and a smaller predecessor (northern castle) on the northern rock head. The entrance area to the castle was formed by a natural, semicircular rock barrier with the through cave. A wall was built in front of the 20 meter wide cave portal from which remains of large limestone blocks have been preserved. Presumably the cave was also used as a stable and summer camp by the castle residents. Located a few tens of meters above - the actual outer bailey, an 80 meter long and 8 to 20 meter wide, formerly fortified spur. Holes show the location of buildings. Then, the main castle on the highest point of the rock plateau. Rubbish mounds made of core masonry suggest a 14 × 10 meter, trapezoidal residential tower with dividing and transverse walls. Small remains of the wall have been preserved on its south-east and north-east corner and on the east side. On the north side of the main castle, a 15-meter-wide neck ditch cuts through the ridge. Not 70 meters further north, on a massive rock head, are the remains of the older north castle. In the center of the small complex, an assumed residential tower on a 2 meter high rock step, of which there are still traces of processing on the rock. Across the entire width of the western edge of the rock there is a terraced leveled rock step. Carvings on the rock suggest the location of at least one building. On both sides of the castle rock, the terrain and carvings on the rock indicate the existence of further outbuildings. Of this, on the northern steep side, a remnant of the wall about 4 meters long and 1.50 meters high, which is in the process of decay, is preserved; on the steep southern slope remains of an approximately 9 meter long wall.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Lengenfels . 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. 291-294.
  • 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, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 51 and 159.

Web links

Commons : Burgreste Lengenfels, Bärenthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files