Ehestetten ruins

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Ehestetten ruins
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, a few remains of the foundation wall, walls and ditches have been preserved
Standing position : Probably local nobility
Construction: Cuboid and small cuboid masonry
Place: Albstadt - Ebingen - "Taubenfels"
Geographical location 48 ° 11 '54.7 "  N , 9 ° 2' 38.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '54.7 "  N , 9 ° 2' 38.5"  E
Height: 855  m above sea level NN
Ehestetten ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Ehestetten ruins

The ruin Ehestetten on the so-called "rock pigeons" is an Outbound Spur castle on a in the valley of the Schmeie projecting 855  m above sea level. NN high rock spur around 2200 meters south-southeast of the Martinskirche of Ebingen , a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was probably built around the year 1100 by the local nobility from Ehestetter as a successor to a castle in the village, this complex was mentioned as castrum 1094, but was already destroyed at that time. The place Ehestetten and the early Ortsburg were then owned by the Lords of Winzeln, the Ehestetter local nobility was probably their lower aristocratic ministerial family , which first appeared in 1084 with Hug von Estetin as a witness to a donation.

The castle was probably abandoned as early as 1139, at which time Ehestetten also came to the monastery of Sankt Gallen , and Pope Innocent II confirmed the monastery ownership.

Between 1978 and 1992 the castle and the fortifications were renovated in several stages by the Rottenburg architect Johannes Manderscheid .

description

The former castle complex had a 40 by 25 meter large horseshoe-shaped outer bailey and a core bailey , separated from it by a ditch , measuring around 28 by 18 meters . In this area there are still very few remains of the wall, including those of a keep . This square keep had a side length of six meters and consisted of smoothly worked ashlar masonry . Other remains of masonry mark the course of the main castle's ring wall , of which mainly walls with traces of mortar are still visible. In the east of the complex, however, up to two layers of roughly machined small ashlar masonry have survived.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 41–44.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 265-270.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Evaluation of ceramic fragments by Christoph Bizer
  2. ↑ As of the founding history of the monastery Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest seen
  3. ↑ Evaluation of ceramic fragments by Christoph Bizer
  4. ^ Source history: Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 42ff.
  5. ^ Manderscheid architecture office - buildings. Accessed July 30, 2020 .