Kyffelburg

Kyffelburg
Information board of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Waldkirch eV
Creation time :	around 1454
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Nobles, clericals
Place:	Waldkirch
Geographical location	48 ° 5 '27.3 "  N , 7 ° 57' 53"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '27.3 "  N , 7 ° 57' 53"  E
Height:	280  m above sea level NN

The Kyffelburg is next to the Küchlinsburg one of the two abandoned castles in today's urban area of Waldkirch in the district of Emmendingen , Baden-Württemberg .

The castle, first mentioned in 1454, was located on the area of the St. Margarethen Monastery in the Probsteistraße – Kandelstraße – Dettenbachstraße area of ​​Waldkirch.

The former owners of the castle are the lords of Fischerbach, until 1485 Hans von Sulz , 1485 chaplain Nikolaus Holderman and 1490 the Margarethenstift. After 1762 the castle was demolished because it was in disrepair. Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex.

The name of the castle is said to be derived from "kiffeln", which back then meant arguing.

literature

• Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz : The castles in the medieval Breisgau, I. Northern part: Half volume LZ . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7995-7365-8 , pp. 470–496.

Web links

Commons : Burgstelle Kyffelburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Kyffelburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Waldkirch - Kyffelburg and Küchlinsburg at breisgau-burgen.de
• Interview with the archaeologist and monument conservator Dr. Andreas Haasis-Berner