Burgstall Neuittelsburg

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Burgstall Neuittelsburg
Alternative name (s): The falcon
Creation time : probably around 1102
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable with castle hill
Place: Ittelsburg- Niedergsäng
Geographical location 47 ° 51 '50 "  N , 10 ° 16' 43.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '50 "  N , 10 ° 16' 43.3"  E
Height: 800  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Neuittelsburg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Neuittelsburg

The Burgstall Neuittelsburg is the remains of a former hilltop castle on the Reichenfels (formerly also Richfels ), southwest of Niedergsäng near Ittelsburg in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria .

Geographical location

Overview map of the castle stables near Ittelsburg

The Burgstall is located about 320 meters southwest of the hamlet Niedergsäng on a Nagelfluh rock . The castle was protected by a deep circular moat , which was cut into the Nagelfluh, as well as by ramparts and a forecourt .

history

The castle was probably originally built by a Rupert von Grönenbach-Wolfertschwenden and Ochsenhausen around 1102. Rupert von Grönenbach was lord of the castle of Neuittelsburg until 1145. The ownership of Neuittelsburg then passed to the Lords of Ittelsburg. Passed down as lords of the castle are Adelheid and Anna von Ittelsburg until 1268, then until 1322 a Berthold von Ittelsburg, who in 1322 donated the annual interest of 10  guilders from a farm "in the upper valley" to the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Memmingen . The Ittelsburg family died out around 1370. From 1400 the castle was owned as a Kemptic fiefdom by Franz the Wauler, who sold it to the Ottobeuren monastery in 1406 . Just two years later, in 1408, the castle was sold again and became the property of Hug von Rothenstein , who acquired it together with his nephew Gerwig von Rothenstein. From 1410 the castle was called "the Falk". At that time it was already dilapidated and from 1484 negotiations took place about a new building on the top of the mountain (see Burgstall Falken ). The name "der Falk" was transferred to the new castle, built in 1496, and the old Bussenberg has been called the Falken ever since. Neuittelsburg remained in the possession of the von Rothenstein family until 1492 and fell into disrepair around 1500. The Burgstall is now a listed building.

literature

  • Karl Schnieringer: Settlement history Ittelsburg . Self-published, Ottobeuren 1938.
  • Karl Schnieringer: Castle stables, palaces and fortifications in the Memmingen district . Self-published, Ottobeuren 1949, p. 31, 32 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-8127-0019