Ringgenburg (Esenhausen)
| Ringgenburg | ||
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 Section ditch and southern part of the inner castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Rinkenburg | |
| Creation time : | 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, clericals | |
| Place: | Wilhelmsdorf - Esenhausen | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 53 '2.1 " N , 9 ° 26' 30.5" E | |
| Height: | 718.1 m above sea level NN | |
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The Ringgenburg even Rinke Burg called, is a Outbound hilltop castle at 718.1 m above sea level. NN north of Esenhausen , a district of the municipality Wilhelmsdorf in the Ravensburg district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle on the up to 726 meter high Rinkenburg , a moraine of the Rhine glacier , was built by the Lords of Ringgenburg as their ancestral seat around the year 1200, probably on the site of a Celtic fortress . In 1296 Johannes von Ringgenburg donated the castle, the place Esenhausen and the patronage of the parish church St. Felix and Adauktus to the Teutonic Order . In 1363 ownership went to Weingarten Monastery .
description
The easily recognizable castle stable of the former spur castle lies on a flat mountain spur jutting out to the northwest . It consists of a main and an outer bailey . They are low by today about four meters, and up about 25 meters wide, wedge-shaped section ditch separated. The outer bailey bordering the plateau in the southeast is almost rectangular, around 55 meters long and 52 meters wide. The main castle in the northwest is about 45 meters wide, unevenly rounded at the spur and a total of about 63 meters long. Depressions can be seen in both areas, directly on the spur in the rounded area of the main castle, remnants of walls and depressions appear in heap.
The outer bailey was protected from the plateau by a ditch with a wall, the rampart and ditch are flat, but can still be seen.
Remarks
Figure of the Ringgenburg Waldweibles
The "figure of the Ringgenburg Waldweibles" recalls the hard times of the cold winters of the Middle Ages. Legend has it that the greedy Ortolfus de Rinchenburc, ruler of Riggenburg, drove the woodland woman, who was looking for mushrooms, berries and medicinal herbs, out of the forest with powerful blows, and it got more and more mad until one day a woody woman cursed him out loud. Ortolfus had the forest woman burned for witchcraft.
literature
- Hans Ulrich Rudolf (eds.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0508-6 , pp. 438-439.
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
Web links
- Schummerungskarte Source: LGL, www.lgl-bw.de