Körschburg Castle

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Körschburg Castle
Alternative name (s): Kerse, Kersch
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, neck ditch preserved
Standing position : Graflich Aichelberg ministerial seat
Place: Deizisau - "Körschfeld"
Geographical location 48 ° 42 '50 "  N , 9 ° 21' 46.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 42 '50 "  N , 9 ° 21' 46.8"  E
Height: 260  m above sea level NHN
Körschburg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Körschburg Castle

The castle site Körschburg , also called Kerse or Kersch , is an abandoned hilltop castle west of the municipality of Deizisau in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg . It is located on a hill spur at around 260 meters above sea level, on the right of the Körsch , just before it flows into the Neckar .

history

The castle was built around the year 1200, because in 1213 the castle Kerse and its presumed builder Count Diepold de Chers (= von Kersch) were first mentioned. Count Diepold came from the Swabian noble family of the Counts of Aichelberg . The Körschburg once controlled the access to the Körschtal as well as a ford that was mentioned in 1269. For the counts, ministerials of the lower nobility sat in the castle.

However, the complex did not exist for too long, because in 1292 it was destroyed by the combined troops of the imperial city of Esslingen and the Counts of Württemberg because of robber barons. For this, the castle was ten days under siege , and thereby undermine the castle walls and so brought down. Then it was thoroughly sanded . After that, the Körschburg was not rebuilt, and in 1319 the castle stables were sold by the Counts of Württemberg to the imperial city of Esslingen.

description

The castle is in the forest department of Körschburg, on a spur hill jutting out from the Filder plateau to the northwest into the gusset of the Neckar and the Körsch. Only an arched, four-meter-deep neck ditch has survived , which separated the castle stables on its east side from the plateau. The hamlet of Korsch, which belongs to the castle and which has also been lost, was located here. On the approximately 50 meters in diameter and steeply sloping castle surface, there are still few remains of walls and hollow bricks, its surface is badly eroded and shows some hollows of unknown origin.

literature

  • Christian Ottersbach, Holger Starzmann: Stuttgart and the central Neckar area . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-638-1 , p. 124.
  • Hartwig Zürn : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments and the medieval castle sites of the Stuttgart city district and the Böblingen, Esslingen and Nürtingen districts . Verlag Silberburg, Stuttgart 1956, pp. 23-24.
  • Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 1998, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8062-1406-9 , pp. 277-278

Web links

  • Entry on Körschburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  • More information about the Körschburg near Cojote (castles of the Swabian Alb and the foreland)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Ottersbach, Holger Starzmann: Stuttgart and the Middle Neckar , p. 124.