Frankenburg (Hegau)

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Frankenburg
Creation time : 11th to 13th centuries
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stables, remains of the moat and rubble of the wall have been preserved
Place: Singing - Bohlingen
Geographical location 47 ° 42 '8.3 "  N , 8 ° 54' 6.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '8.3 "  N , 8 ° 54' 6.3"  E
Height: 615  m above sea level NHN
Frankenburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Frankenburg

The Frankenburg is a defunct spur castle in the district of Bohlingen in the town of Singen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

Geographical location

The castle stable of the small castle is located at 615  m above sea level. NHN high knoll on the northern slope of the Schiener Berg , about 2,200 meters southeast of the Bohlinger Church, not far east of the Schrotzburg . The castle site is located on a mountain ridge that slopes steeply to the north.

history

According to the structure of the complex, it could be built between the 11th and 13th centuries. The name Frankenburg, first mentioned as a field name in 1455, probably refers to "Franko de Bollingen", which was mentioned in a document in 1214. The assumption of a connection with the Schrotzburg above or with the desert areas of Pfeffnang and Rogshoven as an economic yard are only conjectures. The castle probably fell before the middle of the 15th century.

description

Presumably it was a small tower castle with an area of ​​6 by 12 meters, which possibly had a residential tower with a base area of ​​6 by 7 meters, recognizable in the southern part by weakly recognizable rubble walls. To the south towards the mountain, the castle was protected by a neck ditch , which is now largely destroyed by a forest path . To the north there is a triangular plateau about two and a half meters lower, twelve meters long and up to eight meters wide. About seven meters below there is a moat wall system in the mountain flu.

literature

  • Michael Losse , Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (Eds.): Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hegau-Bibliothek, Volume 109 . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 , p. 73.
  • Michael Losse: Singener Jahrbuch 2002: Burgenland Hegau: With Singener Chronik 2001 .
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance. In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 98 and 159.