Diepoldsburg ruin

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Diepoldsburg ruin
Brush drawing of the Rauber castle ruins by August Seyffer from 1813/14

Brush drawing of the Rauber castle ruins by August Seyffer from 1813/14

Alternative name (s): Rauber Castle, Unterdiepoldsburg, Oberdiepoldsburg
Creation time : around 1210
Castle type : Höhenburg, rocky location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Lenningen
Geographical location 48 ° 34 '21.4 "  N , 9 ° 29' 19.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '21.4 "  N , 9 ° 29' 19.4"  E
Height: 780  m above sea level NN
Diepoldsburg ruin (Baden-Württemberg)
Diepoldsburg ruin

The Diepoldsburg ruin is a double castle consisting of the Upper Diepoldsburg and the Lower Diepoldsburg , also known as Rauber Castle . It is located in the Unterlenningen district of the Lenningen community in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg . The rock castle lies above the Lautertal at 780  m above sea level. NN high rock ridge.

history

Ruin Rauber - watercolor by General Eduard von Kallee , 1854

The castle is said to have been built by the knights of Diepholdsburg around 1210, an "Ulrich de Diepoltsburc" is mentioned in a document as owner in 1215. The castle fell into disrepair in the 16th century and the surrounding walls were restored from 1964 to 1965. The castle got the second name Rauber because of its use as a robber baron castle .

description

Upper Diepoldsburg

The structure of the Upper Diepoldsburg stretches along the highest point of a rock ridge for a total length of 165 meters, of its two outer castles there is almost nothing left. The eight-meter-high shield wall was partially rebuilt from the almost square core castle , protected by a neck ditch .

Lower Diepoldsburg

The younger Lower Diepoldsburg is located about 100 meters from the Upper Diepoldsburg, at the end of the rocky ridge. The one-piece system is cut off from the ridge by a 15-meter-wide neck trench. It is not known whether the former access to the castle led over a bridge over the neck ditch or whether it ended on the southwest side of the curtain wall . Inside the polygonal curtain wall, the only building remnant that remains today is a cistern .

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 147.
  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 4 - Alb Mitte-Nord: Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 109–118.
  • Christoph Bizer, Wilhelm Gradmann: Castles and palaces of the Swabian Alb . 3. Edition. DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 1994, ISBN 3-87181-284-6 , p. 48.

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