Castle ruins of the Alter Turm Aach

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Old Tower castle ruins
Aach Tower 1.jpg
Alternative name (s): Old tower
Creation time : approx. 1020-1050
Castle type : Höhenburg , ring castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Free nobles
Construction: Small cuboid
Place: Ah
Geographical location 47 ° 50 '54 "  N , 8 ° 51' 32"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '54 "  N , 8 ° 51' 32"  E
Height: 539  m above sea level NHN
Castle ruins of the Alter Turm Aach (Baden-Württemberg)
Castle ruins of the Alter Turm Aach

The Alter Turm castle ruins are the ruins of a ring castle on the edge of the Eigeltinger valley on a 35 by 30 meter plateau at 539  meters above sea level. NHN on the northeastern edge, above the Aachtopf , the city of Aach in the Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

A C14 dating of a piece of charcoal from the infill masonry carried out by the University of Hohenheim gave a date of construction between 1020 and 1050. This makes it one of the oldest castles in Hegau .

history

Around 1100, in a document by Burkard von Nellenburg, an "Odalricus de Ake" is listed as the 13th witness. Presumably this noble noble family von Aach was the builder of the tower. From 1138 the old tower was owned by the Constance bishopric . Presumably it served as a hunting lodge . It was probably abandoned around 1200. After the destruction of the castle, which is said to have taken place in the city ​​war in 1387 - at the latest in 1525 in the peasants' war - it was neither rebuilt nor rebuilt. Due to the good state of preservation, the use as a quarry for road construction around 1770 is controversial.

description

The southern edge drops steeply to the Eigeltinger Tal, the remaining three sides are protected by a three-meter-deep trench carved into the rock . The edge of the plateau is followed by rubble walls from the surrounding wall. The residential tower with a polygonal floor plan of 9 by 15 meters stood isolated within this ring . The west and parts of the south and north walls have been preserved up to a height of 6.8 meters. The high entrance is in the south wall. The exposed brickwork makes an astonishingly homogeneous impression and consists of small cuboids from the Salier period . It is believed that only the nobility were able to establish something like this at that time. The tower consisted of at least four floors.

gallery

  • Outside view

  • Inside view

  • High entrance

literature

  • Michael Losse , Hans Noll: Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area (= Hegau library . Volume 109). Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-9806273-2-2 , p. 65.
  • Rudolf Martin, Ralf Schrage: The "Old Tower" castle above the Aachtopf. In: Burgen und Schlösser 4/2010, ed. from the German Castle Association . Braubach / Rhein 2010, p. 239 ff.
  • Rudolf Martin, Ralf Schrage: The "Alter Turm" castle above the Aachtopf / Hegau. In: Research on castles and palaces, Vol. 15 of the Wartburg Society 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-891-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FUB Vol. V, p. 45, no. 75
  2. ↑ Sign on the "Old Tower" for historically known dates