Dellingen ruins

Dellingen ruins
Remains of the residential tower
Creation time :	Late 11th to early 12th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Residential tower ruin, ditch
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Quarry stone and small ashlar masonry
Place:	Bräunlingen- Waldhausen
Geographical location	47 ° 55 '27.1 "  N , 8 ° 25' 3.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '27.1 "  N , 8 ° 25' 3.7"  E
Height:	775  m above sea level NN

The Dellingen ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 775  m above sea level. NN near the Waldhausen district of the city of Bräunlingen in the Black Forest-Baar district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

In contrast to the much more recent assessment, the castle was probably built between the late 11th and early 12th centuries. It is therefore one of the oldest castle complexes in the Baar , although recent reading finds at the castle site confirm this assumption. The builder of the castle was probably the lower local nobility of Waldhausen or Dellingen. From the 14th century onwards, the facility is known as the " Burgstall ". In 1483 the Counts of Lupfen were named as fiefdoms, around 1512 the property was in the hands of Georg Stähelin von Stockburg. In 1550 the castle was sold to the Fürstenberg Count Friedrich II. It is unclear whether the castle was abandoned at a later date, i.e. abandoned to its gradual decline, or destroyed in the Peasants' War.

description

The ruins of the residential tower have been preserved from the former castle complex . Its roughly 1.8 meter thick remains of the wall rise to a height of four to five meters. These form an approximately ten by ten meter square wall with an interior area of ​​42 square meters. The tower entrance at ground level in the north wall is a special feature. On the south side, the masonry is broken through by a gap in the middle . In addition to other small remains of the wall, the former moat with the outer wall can be seen in its almost original condition.

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus (Ed.): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Volume 2: Villingen district. Freiburg i. Br. 1890, p. 9 ( digital copy from Heidelberg University Library ).
• 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 , p. 109.
• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 152-153.
• Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 151–154.

Web links

Commons : Ruine Dellingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Castles in the Bregtal and the surrounding area ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at thz-historia.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Siegfried Bader : Kürnburg, Zindelstein and Warenburg - bases of the Zähringer rule over Baar and the Black Forest , 1937, pp. 105-106 ( digitized from breisgau-burgen.de ).
2. ↑ History and condition of the Dellingen ruins (2009) see thz-historia.de.