Ebersberg ruins

Ebersberg ruins
Creation time :	around 1153
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles, clericals
Place:	Neukirch
Geographical location	47 ° 41 '4.2 " N , 9 ° 42' 43.2" E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '4.2 " N , 9 ° 42' 43.2" E
Height:	582.9 m above sea level NN

The ruin Ebersberg is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 582.9 m above sea level. NN on the terminal moraine cone Ebersberg with Mahlweiher around three kilometers north of the Baden-Württemberg community of Neukirch in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg .

Ebersberg ruins on the terminal moraine cone

history

The castle was built by the Lords of Ebersberg and mentioned in 1153. Around 1430 the castle was owned by the Weißenau monastery .

Conrad v. In 1463 Stein von Reichenstein sold the castle and mountain Ebersberg to Count Ulrich V von Montfort . The castle complex with the mill, which was operated by the outflow from the Ebersberger Weiher , with the associated courtyards was then sold to the Weißenau monastery in 1468 . The facilities were later abandoned and fell into disrepair. The foundation walls and surrounding walls of a rectangular castle square are still preserved from the former castle complex on the steep cone of the Drumlin . In the northwest corner, a square stump of the wall suggests a possibly tower-like structure.

The 45-meter high terminal moraine cone on which the castle was built is now part of the five-hectare landscape protection area "Ebersberg mit Mahlweiher" (terminal moraine cone with Mahlweiher), which was designated in 1954, and below the cone is the " Ebersberger Weiher " nature reserve .

At the moment (August 2016) the ruin is closed due to the risk of collapse.

literature

Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Find reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14. 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3 510 49114 9 , ISSN 0071-9897 , pp. 598-601.
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 .

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