Espach Castle

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Espach Castle
Alternative name (s): Freudeneck Castle
Creation time : around 1600
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Mühlheim on the Danube
Geographical location 48 ° 1 '54.7 "  N , 8 ° 53' 36.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '54.7 "  N , 8 ° 53' 36.5"  E
Height: 678.7  m above sea level NN

The castle site Espach , the possible castle Freudeneck means an Outbound hilltop castle at 678.7  m above sea level. NN north of the city of Mühlheim an der Donau in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

There is still no documentary evidence of this castle, today 's name Espach comes from a parcel of the same name to the northeast . The possible historical name of the castle is Freudeneck, in 1610 a field on Freudeneck at the Burgstall on the Scheibenbühl is mentioned. A first reference to a castle at this point comes from the year 1879. At that time it was mentioned in the Tuttlinger Oberamtsbeschreibung that the castle site served as an intermediate storage place for building materials during the construction of the Maria Hilf pilgrimage church, which was built between 1754 and 1756.

All that remains of the Spornburg is a horseshoe-shaped wall with an outer moat and another wall. At the highest point on the castle stable, and located directly on the main wall, there are now rubble mounds; there was probably a building here, possibly a tower on the attack side of the castle.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 3 - Danube Valley: Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 295-298.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , p. 84.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Source history: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 3 - Donautal: Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen , p. 298