Thurneck Castle

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Thurneck Castle
Creation time : First mentioned in 1251
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Remnants of walls, rubble, trenches, walls, remains in newer parts
Standing position : Noble Free
Construction: Quarry stone, cuboid, small cuboid
Place: Mönchsdeggingen -Thurneck
Geographical location 48 ° 44 '52.1 "  N , 10 ° 37' 57"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '52.1 "  N , 10 ° 37' 57"  E
Height: 480  m above sea level NN
Thurneck Castle (Bavaria)
Thurneck Castle

The castle Thurneck is an Outbound high medieval castle above the Mönchsdegginger district Thurneck in Hahnenbachtal in the district of Donau-Ries in Swabia . The castle site is separated from the plateau by an unusually wide and deep ditch .

Geographical location

The Burgstall is located on a hill jutting out to the northwest, about 24 meters above the Hahnenbach Valley . It is located on private land and is overgrown by the forest.

history

The castle was the seat of the noble lords of Thurneck , who were first mentioned in a document in 1251 with Heinrich von Turnekke .

The castle must have passed into the possession of the Counts of Oettingen before 1259 .

In 1259, Ludwig III. von Oettingen and the monastery Ellwangen Burg and Herrschaft Thurneck with Rohrbach against the monastic Donaumünster Castle in Donaumünster near Tapfheim .

At the beginning of the 13th century, the late von Steinhart-Faimingen named themselves as feudal takers after the castle. The widow of Konrad des Spät von Thurneck married a Marshal von Oberndorf for the second time .

In 1396 the Knights of Hoppingen sat on the fortress .

In 1523 Georg von Waal zu Thurneck sold the castle and manor back to the Oettinger. The now uninhabited castle began to crumble and from 1664 served as a quarry for a hunting lodge behind the castle. The Counts of Oettingen use the castle as a stay during the rutting season.

This hunting lodge was expanded again in 1730. For this purpose, stones were broken out of the ruins again .

The castle was abandoned and demolished around 1835. A plan (colored pen drawing from 1801) shows the complex as a small rectangular “Princely Logie”, which was surrounded by several stately outbuildings. In addition to an “ armory ”, the “hunter's house”, a kitchen, the guard room, a barn and stables can be seen. There was a large dog kennel behind the armory .

description

The castle site (approx. 30 × 75 meters) is separated from the plateau by an unusually wide and deep ditch. This section trench is up to 16 meters deep and about 30 meters wide. In the west, the steep drop protects the castle, at the northern end a low wall borders the edge of the moat.

Only the remains of the wall and high rubble bars have survived from the main castle . On the east side you can still see a 6 meter long section of the wall. In the quarry stone wall , which is around 1.5 meters high, there are some older blocks.

The castle plateau is dominated by a knoll in the middle. A hollow here marks the location of the former keep or residential tower. The square tower should have measured about 9 × 9 meters on the outside. In addition to the high rubble walls, small remains of the veneer made of small cuboids can be seen.

A forester's lodge now stands within the preserved wall of the demolished hunting lodge under the castle.

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literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 6: Eastern Alb. Hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 131-136.
  • Wilfried Sponsel, Hartmut Steger: Past castles and mansions. A search for traces in the view of the giant . Typesetting and graphics partner, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-935438-27-3 , pp. 68–71.