Gleißenburg ruins
| Gleißenburg ruins | ||
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 Remains of the ruins of Gleißenburg, 2008-10 |
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| Creation time : | around 1376 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Blaubeuren -Beiningen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 22 '37.9 " N , 9 ° 47' 28.3" E | |
| Height: | 640 m above sea level NN | |
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The ruin Gleißenburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 640 m above sea level. NN high ledge above the Höllental west of Beiningen , a district of Blaubeuren in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The Höllental begins as a narrow dry valley with beautiful rock formations in the east in the area around the ruins, flows into the Riedental and later opens into a wide, plowed plain in the Achtal opposite the Sirgenstein. From the Sirgenstein, which also had a castle, one could monitor all movements through the Akhtal and from the Höllental.
history
The Lords of Wernau are known as the oldest owners of the castle . The castle is said to have been built around 1376. 1408 is named as a witness Eitel Werdnau von Glißenburg . In 1424 "Eitel von Werdenow gave up half of his fortress Gleyssenburg" and its accessories to Duke Friedrich of Austria. Other owners were the lords of Altmannshofen, von Villenbach, the subordinate of Blaubeuren Albrecht Heinrichmann, and finally Hans Späth von Schülzburg. The latter finally sold the castle in 1506 to the Blaubeuren hospital, with which it remained until its end. As late as 1662, the existing builders on the neighboring Gleißenburg estate are supposed to pay for the maintenance of the castle. In the course of the following 100 years, however, the castle seems to have been abandoned, because it is no longer mentioned in 1772.
description
According to the floor plan at Enslin (1896), the castle was separated from the Hochstrasse plain by a neck ditch . The castle apparently consisted of a single larger building, which had a rectangular to almost square floor plan. In the west on the mountain slope there seem to have been further walls of a possible outer bailey. The proportions are most likely to suggest a residential tower with a porch. The castle is said to have been supplied with water from Beiningen "above and below the ground" through dikes .
Extensive repairs were still carried out in the second half of the 16th century, with the following parts of the building being named: the castle or castle gate, the bridge (probably over the neck ditch), the castle gable, and the living room. The living room received a new tiled stove, the roof was covered with new roof tiles, and the bridge (over the moat) was re-covered with thick oak boards.
Today the remains of the surrounding walls and the neck ditch of the former castle are superficially visible. The ruins were largely leveled over the centuries. An archaeological investigation has not yet been carried out.
literature
- Ch. Enslin: Gleißenburg. Sheets of the Swabian Alb Association, vol. 8, 1896, columns 163–170.
- Günter Schmitt : Gleißenburg . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 2: Alb Mitte-Süd - hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberach an der Riss: Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 45-48.