Achalm ruins
| Achalm ruins | ||
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 The renewed keep of the former Achalm Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1050 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | Keep | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Construction: | Small ashlar masonry | |
| Place: | Reutlingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 29 '39 " N , 9 ° 14' 38.5" E | |
| Height: | 707.1 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Achalm ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a rock at the summit of 707.1 m above sea level. NHN high Achalm , the local mountain of the city of Reutlingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle was built between the years 1030 and 1050 by Count Egino and Rudolf von Achalm , and was first mentioned in a document in 1090 . In the 11th century the castle was extended with a lower castle. After the castle had been owned by the Guelphs , it came to the Counts of Württemberg in 1376 . In 1498 the castle was dilapidated and was demolished around 1650. In 1822 (according to other sources, 1838), King Wilhelm I of Württemberg had the tower built on the foundations of the old keep as a lookout tower , and in 1932 it was renovated and rebuilt due to the threat of decay.
In November 2017, a five-year-old boy got his head stuck between the bars of the window and had to be rescued by the fire department and a height rescue group. The masonry was so badly damaged that safe access to the tower for visitors could no longer be guaranteed. The tower is now accessible again.
description
Today's tower, made of natural stone and around 14 meters high, stands on a base area of 7.20 by 7.2 meters and has a wall thickness of up to 8.70 meters of 1.75 meters. Above that, the walls up to the platform are only about half as thick and the inside is bricked up with bricks. A steel staircase leads along the inner walls to the covered stair exit on the viewing platform , on which an orientation board and a flagpole are attached. With this the tower reaches a height of about 18 meters.
Remains of a 1.50 to 1.60 meter thick curtain wall still exist from the former core castle , six meters above the outer bailey .
Achalm in literature
Gustav Schwab created a literary monument for the castle in 1828 with his poem Die Achalm . The etiological legend explaining the name is included here, but neither the legend nor the poem offers a historically accurate explanation for the name Achalm.
literature
- Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb. A contribution to ceramics and castle research (= research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 26). Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 128-134.
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 4: Alb Middle-North. Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 275–287.
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .
Web links
- Reutlingen City Archives | Reutlingen castles | Achalm Homepage of the city of Reutlingen
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b Achalm> interior development on the website of the city of Reutlingen
- ^ Bub was stuck in a castle ruin with his head in a metal grille , accessed on November 5, 2017