Burgstall falcons

Burgstall Falken (Heidelburg)
Alternative name (s):	Heidelburg
Creation time :	10th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle stable with castle hill
Place:	Ittelsburg
Geographical location	47 ° 52 '48.2 "  N , 10 ° 16' 28.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '48.2 "  N , 10 ° 16' 28.8"  E
Height:	780  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Falken , also called Heidelburg , is the remnant of a former hilltop castle on the Falken hill, northeast of Ittelsburg , a district of Bad Grönenbach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . Only ditches and a few remains of the wall can be seen.

history

The original system dates back to the 10th century. The castle burned down in 1487 and from 1492 was owned by Heinrich von Rothenstein , a nephew of Konrad the Younger von Rothenstein. He was also the founder of the Rothenstein-Falken line. Heinrich von Rothenstein rebuilt the castle in 1496. In 1505 a new building was carried out under Achar and Gangolf von Rothenstein.

During the German Peasants' War in 1525, the castle was looted by the Allgäuer Haufen . It remained in the possession of the von Rothenstein family until 1562 . After that, with the end of the Rothenstein-Falken line due to the death of Hans Heinrich in 1562, it passed into the possession of his relative Christoph von Bollstädt and was conquered by the prince monastery of Kempten . In 1571 the prince gave falcons to Heinrich von Stein zu Niederstotzingen. In the years from 1642 to 1692 the castle was a charitable maintenance office.

After the secularization in 1803, the post keeper Dodel owned the castle. In 1821 the facility was demolished by its owner at the time. The Burgstall Falken is a listed building.

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  Monument stone on the site of Heidelberg Castle

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  Location of the Heidelburg

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  Overview map of the castle stables near Ittelsburg

literature

• Lorenz Boxler: Collection of strange events in the former royal monastery of Kempten from its creation to its dissolution in 1802 . Kösel, Kempten 1822.
• Hermann Hoffmann: The documents of the Reichsstiftes Ottobeuren 764-1460 . Konrad, Weissenhorn 1991, ISBN 3-922518-43-5 ( Publications of the Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History. Series 2: Documents and registers A: Regest of state, municipal and private archives. Vol. 13).
• Karl Schnieringer: Castle stables, palaces and fortifications in the Memmingen district . Self-published, Ottobeuren 1949, p. 31, 32 .

Web links

• Burgstall Falken at burgeninventar.de ( Memento from August 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments in Bavaria, Volume VII, Schwaben, Munich, 1985
2. ^ "Landkreis Unterallgäu", Volume II, 1987
3. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-144-33