Neuhewen Castle

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Neuhewen Castle
Neuhewen Castle - southeast side of the keep

Neuhewen Castle - southeast side of the keep

Alternative name (s): Stettener Schlössle
Neuhöwen Castle
Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Keep, remains of the wall
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Engen- Stetten
Geographical location 47 ° 52 '44.8 "  N , 8 ° 43' 2.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '44.8 "  N , 8 ° 43' 2.6"  E
Height: 863.9  m above sea level NHN
Neuhewen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Neuhewen Castle

The castle Neuhewen even lock Neuhöwen and popularly Stettener Schößle called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the Neuhewen to 863.9 feet above mean sea level north of the hamlet of Stetten of city Engen in Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

history

The castle was built in the middle of the 13th century by the lords of Engen (Hewen) and passed to the Habsburgs at the end of the same century . In the 14th century it was a pawn loan from the Counts of Hohenberg . From 1375 to the beginning of the 16th century, the owners were the Lords of Reischach . In the Thirty Years' War in 1639 by Bavarian troops destroyed, acquired in 1661, the gentlemen von Furstenberg ruin. In 1671 the family Ebinger bought it from the castle and in 1751 the castle ruin was again owned by Fürstenberg; it remained so to this day.

Todays use

The highest castle complex in the Hegau is not open to tourists. Day trippers will not find a signposted path to the castle or a signposted parking lot. While in the 80s and up to around 2005 it was still possible to visit the facility from the inside and climb the castle tower, today it is barred from access with barriers and NATO wire .

Building description

View of the inner castle from the west

The castle had a trapezoidal main castle , of which the remains of the wall are still preserved. The keep is still eleven meters high and three meters thick. An approximately eight meter wide section trench separated the main castle from the shield-shaped, approximately 75 meter long and 30 meter wide outer bailey . This continued north of the main castle as a ten meter wide terrace. In the west of the main castle, the ruins of up to three storeys high, at least partially basement buildings lean against the curtain wall , some of which have remains of the window frames ( Romanesque and Gothic windows).

literature

  • Helmut Bender, Karl-Bernhard Knappe, Klauspeter Wilke: Castles in southern Baden . 1st edition. Verlag Karl Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979, ISBN 3-921340-41-1 , pp. 132-134.
  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll: Castles, palaces and fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and noble residences in the western Lake Constance area . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 , pp. 134-135.
  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . 1st edition. Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 23-25.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 63–64.

Web links

Commons : Burg Neuhewen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files