Homburg (Liptingen)

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Homburg
Creation time : Late 12./13. century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Tower remains, trench remains
Place: Emmingen from Egg- Liptingen
Geographical location 47 ° 55 '49.8 "  N , 8 ° 56' 4.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '49.8 "  N , 8 ° 56' 4.9"  E
Height: 759.4  m above sea level NN

The Homburg is the ruin of a small spur castle at the end of the " Schloßbühl " ridge, around 2100 meters southeast of the church in the Liptingen district of the municipality of Emmingen-Liptingen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

During the late 12./13. Homburg, built in the 18th century, cannot yet be clearly assigned to a gender. The less probable lords of Liptingen, mentioned since 1191, and the lords of Heudorf mentioned from 1262 on, come into question. In 1632 the castle was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War .

description

The total of around 600 square meters and 759.4  m above sea level. The castle site, located above sea level, is located on a mountain spur facing south-west of a mountain that has been largely dismantled by a quarry. This spur falls to the south-west to the valley, to the north-east the terrain rises to 763.3  m above sea level. NN high summit of the mountain. The castle plateau, which is slightly elevated compared to the northeastern foreland, is surrounded by a moat . The moat is seven to 12 meters wide, 0.8 to three meters from the fore and up to six meters deep from the castle plateau. On the sloping slopes in the north-west and in the south-west, the long sides of the castle area, the ditch merges into a slope ditch, at the spur tip in the southwest it is designed as a slope terrace. In the northern area of ​​the trench a 0.5 meter high rampart is presented to this, in the east it is partially sanded.

The oval castle area still has rubble walls up to three meters high from the former development, at the northeastern tip of the castle plateau there was a presumably polygonal tower with a base area of ​​80 square meters. This tower was the dominant building of the complex, which is therefore attributed to the tower castle type . The southwest area of ​​the tower can no longer be reconstructed above ground; inside there is a two to three meter deep funnel pit, probably the rest of a cellar. To the south and west of the tower are two ramparts that meet at right angles, presumably the remains of a curtain wall , which, however, does not include the southwest tip of the castle plateau. During smaller excavations before 1887, walls and a brick pavement were exposed, after 1880 a deep well or a cistern near the castle was filled in.

literature

  • 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. 62, 156 and 177.

Web links

  • Entry on Homburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 62
  2. ↑ A short foray through the Heudorf history website of Heudorf im Hegau, see paragraph 1632
  3. ^ Source description: Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , pp. 62 and 156