Burgstall Wehingen

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Burgstall Wehingen
Alternative name (s): Wähingen
Creation time : Mentioned in 1304
Castle type : Höhenburg in spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Unterjesingen
Geographical location 48 ° 31 '50 "  N , 8 ° 59' 4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '50 "  N , 8 ° 59' 4"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Wehingen (Baden-Württemberg)
Burgstall Wehingen

The Postal Wehingen is an Outbound Spur castle in Tübingen district Unterjesingen in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

location

The Burgstall is located at around 460  m above sea level. NN about 500 m north of the Ammertal village Unterjesingen on the southern edge of the Schönbuch on the wooded downward spur of the mouth of the Enzbach running from the north into the Ammer .

history

The Burgstall Wehingen was a noble seat of the von Wehingen and therefore had its own district. It belonged with the accessories, called the Reittin , with vineyards, fields, meadows and wood, to those of Validlingen "with all authority, compulsion and ban , drive and trot ." The von Validlingen had the right to take their steeds on the route described to get there. Ulrich von Wehingen was mentioned in writing as a resident of the castle in 1304 , he was a servant of Count Palatine Gottfried von Tübingen, and was named after this castle.

Only more or less traces of the former castle complex could be found in the middle of the 19th century.

literature

Leopold Stierle: The Lords of Wehingen: a Swabian knightly family in the service of the Counts of Hohenberg, the Babenbergs, King Ottokars II of Bohemia and the Habsburgs: its various branches in Lower Austria and Moravia, in Tyrol and in the ancestral home. Thorbecke, 1989, 313 pages.

Individual evidence

  1. Geoportal spatial planning in Baden-Württemberg.
  2. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, inventory A 474 L: Bebenhausen monastery office. Document with the signatures of governor Heinrich Graf zu Castel and Johann Entzlin.
  3. ^ Eduard Paulus: Description of the Oberamt Herrenberg . Eduard Hallberger, Stuttgart 1855, page 302.
  4. ^ Eduard Paulus: Description of the Oberamt Herrenberg . Eduard Hallberger, Stuttgart 1855, page 103.