Hohenschramberg

Hohenschramberg
Partial view of the Hohenschramberg castle ruins (Palas)
Alternative name (s):	Nippenburg
Creation time :	1457
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	ruin
Place:	Schramberg
Geographical location	48 ° 13 '32.4 "  N , 8 ° 22' 42.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '32.4 "  N , 8 ° 22' 42.6"  E
Height:	636.2  m above sea level NHN

Hohenschramberg , also known as Nippenburg , is the ruin of a spur castle on the Schlossberg in Schramberg in the Baden-Württemberg district of Rottweil .

Geographical location

The Hohenschramberg castle ruins are located at 636.2  m above sea level. NHN high southeast spur of the Schlossberg ( 683.1  m ), which rises steeply in the Black Forest and north-west above the confluence of the Lauterbach in the Schiltach in Schramberg . The castle ruins offer a good view of the "fifth valley town" Schramberg.

history

Hans von Rechberg , who had acquired the castles Falkenstein , Schilteck and Ramstein and thus established the rule of Schramberg , acquired the medieval castle stables in 1455 and expanded it from 1457 to the strongly fortified Hohenschramberg castle. Hohenschramberg is one of the castles that were the last to be built in Germany .

In 1464, Count Eberhard im Bart besieged the castle in vain.

In 1526 the rule and thus the castle passed to the Lords of Landenberg from Thurgau in Switzerland .

In 1547 the lordship including the castle passed to the Chancellor of the Front of Austria in Alsace , Rochus Merz von Staffelfelden . Rochus Merz expanded the castle and received market rights from Emperor Karl V in 1547 .

From 1583 to 1805, the castle and the Schramberg lordship remained in Austria (Upper Austria).

In 1633, during the Thirty Years' War , the castle was besieged by the Duke of Württemberg or Konrad Widerholt , who subsequently also took the castle.

In 1648 the castle and the rule were pledged to the Counts of Bissingen and Nippenburg . They first lived at Hohenschramberg Castle and built their first castle in the valley in 1772/73.

During the Palatinate War of Succession , the castle was set on fire in 1689 by the troops of King Louis XIV of France .

View to the chapel tower

In the years 1957 to 1983, numerous excavation work and conservation measures were carried out by the “castle pioneers”, a group of citizens who did their best to preserve the castle ruins, supported by the city of Schramberg and the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Building description

The ruin is well worth seeing because it is well preserved and very large.

Parts of the western upstream bastion with the upper courtyard, the chapel tower, the middle and rear castle, the horse stable, as well as the foundation walls of the bath and bakery and other buildings on the east and north sides have been preserved.

Hohenschramberg seen from the valley town

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

literature

• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 101-104.

Web links

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

• Gasthof Burgstüble: History of Hohenschramberg Castle, pictures
• Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state by Wolfgang Braun