Kühburg

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Kühburg
Alternative name (s): Waltenburg
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Counts, clericals
Place: Wiesenbach
Geographical location 49 ° 21 '23.4 "  N , 8 ° 48' 58"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '23.4 "  N , 8 ° 48' 58"  E
Kühburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Kühburg

The Kühburg even Walt Burg called, may be an Outbound hilltop castle on the "Kühberg" in the bathes Castle censure and Old Castle southeast of the community Wiesbachhorn in the Rhine-Neckar region in Baden-Württemberg .

history

According to older publications, the castle in Wiesenbach could have been built by the Counts of Lauffen in the high Middle Ages and was located in the area of ​​the former long-distance route from Heidelberg via Mosbach to Würzburg . The Counts of Lauffen probably built the Dilsberg mountain fortress above the Neckar in the second half of the 12th century and may have moved their seat from Wiesenbach there. From the middle of the 12th century, the castle was probably owned by the Ellwangen Monastery , which became the successor to the Lauffeners in Wiesenbach. The castle was then probably used as a quarry for the construction of the monastery in Wiesenbach, founded by Ellwangen.

More recent publications contradict this thesis and rather date the system to the Roman period.

An original name of the castle has not been passed down. The name Kühberg or Kyberg for the ridge on the Burgstall is not proven before the 17th century. A connection to the Counts of Kyburg is excluded. In a forest description from 1549, a forest on the Walttenberg is mentioned, whose description of the location coincides with the castle stable, so that the castle could once have been called Waltenburg .

Archaeological development

The castle was almost forgotten until modern times. In the vernacular, only stories circulated about the knight from the Kühburg , which found their expression in the poem Das Schloß zu Wiesenbach by councilor Wilhelm Fischer around 1900. In 1936, the Badisches Vermessungsamt Heidelberg came across remnants of the wall when they were redistributing the Allmendfeld on the Kühberg. Further wall fragments were found at this point during road construction work in 1937. With a few excavations and with the help of a dowser, a rough floor plan of the facility could be created. During the excavations, two small, 35 cm high pillars made of sandstone came to light, which, due to their design, can be dated to the early 13th century. A detailed excavation was not carried out, however, the then Wiesenbacher Mayor Friedrich Brox stopped the, in his opinion, "hopeless" work and instead invested the funds from the municipal finances necessary for further research into the complex in 1938 to build a Hitler Youth home. The Second World War prevented further research on the Burgstall. After the Second World War , the tight municipal finances did not allow any further excavations. Later the Kühberg near the Burgstall was partially afforested, so that the remains of the castle still rest under arable land and forest floor.

literature

  • Günther Wüst: The secrets of the Kühburg , in: To the history of Wiesenbach and Langenzell , Wiesenbach 1970, pp. 66–69.
  • Hartmut Riehl: Castles and palaces in the Kraichgau . 2nd edition, Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-51-7 , p. 29.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolai Knauer: The castles of the counts of Lauffen in the Neckar valley . In: Christhard Schrenk, Peter Wanner (eds.): Heilbronnica 5 . Contributions to the city and regional history. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2013, p. 102 f . ( heilbronn.de [PDF; 2.9 MB ; accessed on February 21, 2014]).