Neugutenstein castle ruins
| Neugutenstein castle ruins | ||
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 Residential tower on the rock needle, 2007 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Broken Gutenstein | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1354 | |
| Castle type : | High castle, rocky location, valley slope | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Construction: | Hunchback cuboid, cuboid | |
| Place: | Sigmaringen-Gutenstein | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 4 '49 " N , 9 ° 9' 25" E | |
| Height: | 660 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle ruin Neugutenstein is the ruin of a medieval hilltop castle near Gutenstein , a district of Sigmaringen in the district of Sigmaringen , administrative district of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg .
location
It is located in the Danube Valley near the confluence of the Schmeie coming from the north above the road from Sigmaringen to Beuron , between the Inzigkofen train station and Inzigkofen-Dietfurt. In the castle is a typical pinnacle Castle, a special type of rock castle , which at around 660 meters above sea level on an isolated rocky pinnacle on the left downhill edge of the Natural Park Upper Danube sturmfrei was built. The Danube has its bed at around 577 meters above sea level.
history
The castle - initially also called Niedergutenstein - was first mentioned in a document in 1354. At that time it was owned by Burkhard von Reischach as a fief of Duke Albert of Austria .
The time of construction of the castle and the builders have not been conclusively clarified. Due to the name given and the fact that it was first mentioned in a document relatively late, it is still generally assumed today that the castle was built by Gutenstein at the beginning of the 14th century .
In 1377 Duke Leopold III pledged . from Austria the castle to Ulrich von Stüben. In 1410, the gentlemen of Stüben gave Stefan von Gundelfingen 1,500 florins for the redemption of the pledge. At that time the castle was already referred to as a ruin ( Burgstall ).
The ruins came to the Counts of Sonneberg through purchase in 1509 and, around 1530, through marriage to the Reichserbtruchsessen von Waldburg zu Scheer . In 1659 they exchanged the “Gundelfinger Gut” area with the “Prochen Guettebstein” ruins for the so-called Faulbronn Forest with the Laiz monastery . In the corresponding document, the ruin is referred to for the first time as " Broken Gutenstein " (see Gutenstein ).
It was then owned for a while by Gebhard Xaver, Eberhard Ernst and Josef Alois, all of Sigmaringen's truchess, and in 1783 it passed to Prince Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen .
investment
The medieval castle complex is divided into two parts. On the one hand from the main castle built on a rock and the farmyard on the adjacent plateau. The main castle consisted of two sections, the residential tower and the lower castle . Remains of the residential tower on the rock needle have been preserved from the complex.
The presumably Gothic window or archway, which was clearly visible from the Donautalstrasse for decades, was probably brought down by a storm in mid-January 2008. The still preserved wall is about eight meters high and twelve meters long.
West side of the residential tower, 1996
Cave with building remains, 1996
North corner of the residential tower, 1996
Residential tower on the rock needle, 1996
literature
- Christoph Bizer: Dating castles through ceramics . in: City development in the district of Sigmaringen-Veringen . 1985
- Handbook of Historic Places . Volume VI, ISBN 3-520-27602-X
- Hyronimus Edelmann: Broken Gutenstein . In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . No. 12, 1900, No. 11, pp. 479-484.
- Friedrich Eisele: The gentlemen from Magenbuch . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte . No. 2. 1935
- Ms. Haug: On Niedergutenstein regarding documents . In: Zollernheimat . No. 7. 1938
- Arthur Hauptmann: Broken Gutenstein. A ruin between rocks and abyss . In: Ders .: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas. Volume 2 . Verlag des Südkurier. Konstanz 1984. ISBN 3-87799-075-4 , pp. 77-79.
- Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978. ISSN 0178-3262
- Wilfried Pfefferkorn: Broken Gutenstein . In: Ders .: Rock castles in the upper Danube valley. Members of the state group Baden-Württemberg in the service of the inventory of difficult to access ruins . In: Castles and Palaces. Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation . No. 1, 1974. European Castle Institute - Establishment of the German Castle Association Braubach 1974. ISSN 0007-6201 . Pp. 19-27, here pp. 20-23.
- Günter Schmitt : Neugutenstein (Broken Gutenstein) . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Pp. 73-80. Biberach publishing house printing. Biberach 1990. ISBN 3-924489-50-5
- Franz Thome: Broken Gutenstein (five-stanza poem); in: "Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein", XXII. Born in 1910, No. 7; P. 215.
- Stefan Uhl: Cave castles and cave fortifications in the Danube Valley . in: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . No. 1. 1988
- Stefan Uhl: humpback cuboid . 1984
- Karl Theodor Zingler, Georg Buck: Zolleric palaces, castles and castle ruins in Swabia . 1908
Web links
- Neugutenstein ruins on the burgenwelt.de site
- Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state by Wolfgang Braun
Remarks
- ↑ Helmut Stroppel: What happened to the window or archway? in: SÜDKURIER NR. 33 / MP dated February 8, 2008