Geyersburg castle ruins

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Geyersburg castle ruins
Castle ruin Geyersburg.png
Alternative name (s): Gartenheuslin
Creation time : 1391
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Remains of the residential tower and the curtain wall
Standing position : Commoners, nobles
Construction: Shell limestones
Place: Untermünkheim- Lindenhof
Geographical location 49 ° 8 '7.9 "  N , 9 ° 43' 39"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '7.9 "  N , 9 ° 43' 39"  E
Height: 320  m above sea level NHN
Geyersburg castle ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Geyersburg castle ruins

The castle ruin Geyersburg , sometimes also called Gartenheuslin , is the ruin of a spur castle in the area of ​​the municipality of Untermünkheim in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The Geyersburg lies on a very narrow mountain ridge that tapers in the east-northeast after about 500 meters at a height of about 320  m above sea level. NHN to the left above the Kochertal , on which the southern boundary of Untermünkheim runs to the town of Schwäbisch Hall . A few steps to the south-east, the terrain falls over the wooded acorn slopes , which show remains of vineyard walls below, with a slope of about 30% to the valley floor of the Kocher, which there at the end of the Gelbinger Westschlinge at a little over 260  m above sea level. NHN merges into an east loop around this ridge. To the north, the terrain slopes much more flatly to the foal pasture , the valley terrace of an old western loop of the valley, the middle of which is about 400 meters north of the ruins and about 20 meters above the current valley floor, the Lindenhof farmstead. The next larger settlement near Geyersburg is the Schwäbisch Haller hamlet of Sülz just under a kilometer in the southwest, from which the castle is also the easiest to reach. The ruins of the Neuburg lie about 700 meters to the south-east, beyond the Kocher, on the Umlaufberg Neuberg in its Gelbinger Westschlinge .

history

The hill fort was built in 1391 by the influential Halle noble family Feldner (Veldner). One of the primal families of the Haller patriciate, to which the historically traditional widow Veldner also belonged. In 1402 a Hans Feldner, called Geyer , is mentioned in a document in connection with Ulrich von Hohenlohe and the fief of the fortress Geyersburg . Then the castle came to the city of Hall , which it sold in 1406 to Rudolf von Münkheim, also a member of the Hall city nobility. He lost the castle for financial reasons, and so it came as a fief to other Haller patricians. It is unclear whether the castle was destroyed or fell into disrepair. After the Lords of Münkheim died out in 1507, it lost its importance. The festival called "Gartenheuslin" at that time served as a retreat for a group of farmers during the southern German peasant uprisings in the 1520s ( German Peasants' War ) .

The ruin was renovated in 1982 and is freely accessible.

description

The castle complex had a partially preserved three-story residential tower (made of shell limestone ) with an octagonal floor plan and 1.5 meter thick walls, as well as a basement that could be reached via a stone staircase. There are notch-like openings in the outer wall and large rectangular windows with seating niches on the upper floor. The system also had section trenches and a shield wall .

  • Location map

  • View from the east, cross section

  • View from the east (artist's impression)

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 253-255.

Web links

Commons : Geyersburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, cut sheet No. 6824 - Schwäbisch Hall.
  2. ↑ From Rudolph Friedrich von Moser's description of the Oberamt Hall from 1847 in Wikisource: History of the city of Hall, the old Haller noble families, p. 147