Hinterburg (Tengen)

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Hinterburg
South side of the tower ruin

South side of the tower ruin

Creation time : 1150
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Keep
Standing position : Nobles, clericals
Place: Tengen
Geographical location 47 ° 48 '41.8 "  N , 8 ° 39' 31.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '41.8 "  N , 8 ° 39' 31.3"  E
Height: 610  m above sea level NHN
Hinterburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Hinterburg

The rear castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a narrow 610  m above sea level. NHN high ledge near the town of Tengen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built around 1150 by the barons (later counts) of Tengen. In the middle of the 13th century , the planned city was founded. To do this, they use the front part of the elongated mountain spur. When the rule was divided around 1275, this large castle area, the "rear castle", was separated. After several changes of ownership, the castle came to the Mainau Order of the Teutonic Order . After 1442 the rear castle was destroyed by an army of the Swabian League of Cities . No sooner had the rear dominion recovered, the Confederates destroyed it again in 1457. The chronicle of Gerold Edlibach describes how this came about and also a picture of the old town of Tengen with the front castle and the rear tower. In 1519 the actual front castle (the palace) burned down completely. Demolished in the 16th century, the ruin was used as a quarry until around 1850. Only the former castle was originally 32 meters, now only 20 meters high keep on an area of 7 by 7 feet get. Count Christoph von Nellenburg-Tengen sold the castle and county Tengen in 1522 to Emperor Karl V. The castle complex is now a listed building .

literature

  • Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Südkurier Verlag, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 280-283.

Web links

Commons : Burg Tengen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument conservation value plan for the entire complex “Stadtanlage Tengen”, p. 18 (PDF; 4.0 MB), accessed on November 1, 2018