Fautsburg
| Fautsburg | ||
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 Rebuilt keep of the Fautsburg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Vogtsberg, Vogetesberg, Vautsberg, Vogtsburg, Fautsberg Castle | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Bad Wildbad | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 39 '58.3 " N , 8 ° 32' 44.8" E | |
| Height: | 670 m above sea level NN | |
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The Fautsburg is a ruined castle above the Rehmühle in the Aichelberg district of the city of Bad Wildbad in the Calw district in Baden-Württemberg . From the hillside castle until the 20th century rebuilt keep no visible traces longer exist and some remains of walls.
history
It is assumed that the castle was built by the Counts of Calw , as the castle was mentioned in their possession in 1276. This is also the year of the first written mention, which is dated February 23, 1276. It is possible that the castle was built by the Counts of Hohenberg at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. Several documents from this time indicate a ministerial seat of the knights from Vogtesberg. Their heirs, the Lords of Hornberg , sold half of the castle to Count Eberhard von Württemberg in 1323 for £ 300 Heller . The other half later came to the House of Württemberg via Count Palatine Rudolf IV of Tübingen . The administration of the castle was incumbent on the lower nobility of the region. In 1476, Count Eberhard von Württemberg granted Domdechant Count Johann von Helfenstein refuge in the castle from the Strasbourg Bishop Rupprecht, whom he had previously criticized. In 1561 the reformer Johannes Brenz received the Fautsburg as a fief. In 1570 Brenz returned the fief to the Württemberg people. In the same year belehnte Duke Ludwig of Württemberg the Hirsau with possession. In 1594 the forester Eberhard Zangmeister was enfeoffed with the property by Duke Friedrich von Württemberg , which fell back to Württemberg in 1603. In 1604 a forester was named as a resident of the already dilapidated Fautsburg. It later came into the possession of the Rehmüller family, who used the walls as a quarry . In the middle of the 19th century the forest usage rights were bought up by the state and redistributed. The property with the Fautsburg was added to Johann Georg Rentschler. In 1910 and 1939 security work was carried out on the ruins for the first time. At the beginning of the 1960s the keep was rebuilt as a lookout tower and in 1967 the ruins were opened to the public, although shortly afterwards the walls grew again and were forgotten. In 2000 the castle was exposed again and the first castle festival was held in 2004. In 2007 the tower received a roof.
investment
The keep has a footprint of 7.15 by 6.7 meters and a wall thickness of around two meters. There are also some remains of the wall. A superficial examination of the castle complex took place in 1930. To the west of the tower there was probably a shield wall three meters thick. Since no interlocking with the tower could be established in 1930, the wall is likely to be younger than the tower. The curtain wall, the likely Palas have connected, opposite the farm buildings were located. A gate kennel was found in the northeast .
With the roof, the tower reaches a height of around 20 m. Access is from the higher north side via an access path with stairs to a small wooden bridge at the high entrance, which is now covered and flanked by a man-high wooden figure. In the tower there is a wooden staircase with 33 steps, which leads over an intermediate platform to the 14.3 m high viewing platform . From here there is a good view of the valley of the Kleine Enz .
The historical Fautsburg circular hiking trail leads around the castle for a distance of 10 km and provides information on the history of the region and the surrounding mountain towns of Aichelberg, Hünerberg, Meistern and the Rehmühle on more than 20 information boards.
View from the keep of the Fautsburg to the east into the Kleinenz valley towards Rehmühle
Entrance to the keep of the Fautsburg
Information board on the historic Fautsburg circular hiking trail
References and comments
- ↑ Information according to the information board in the keep
- ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon. Stürtz Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 628.
- ↑ a b Information according to privately carried out measurements (heights above valley side)
literature
- Fritz Barth: The Fautsburg. Awakened from a long sleep. Self-published, Bad Wildbad 2004.
