Heriboldesburg ruins

Heriboldesburg ruins
Heriboldesburg above Herbolzheim
Alternative name (s):	Herbolzheim Castle
Creation time :	around 1100 to 1200
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	ruin
Place:	Herbolzheim
Geographical location	49 ° 16 '58.7 "  N , 9 ° 15' 41.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '58.7 "  N , 9 ° 15' 41.9"  E.

The Heriboldesburg ruin is the ruin of a high medieval spur castle above the Jagst valley on a mountain spur in Herbolzheim , a district of Neudenau in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The original settlement center of Herbolzheim lies on the right bank of the Jagst. Probably as a result of the Hungarian invasions in the early 10th century, the town's manor was relocated to the ridge on the left bank of the Jagst. Herbolzheim Castle was probably built from it in the 12th century. It was the ancestral seat of the Knights of Herbolzheim, first mentioned in 1268.

Herbolzheim castle and town came to the Worms monastery around 1330 and finally to Kurmainz in 1362 through several pledges and sales .

When and why the castle was destroyed is unknown. The Knights of Herbolzheim, who were no longer wealthy in Herbolzheim, died out in the late 15th century, and the castle was probably already destroyed at that time. According to the town hall protocol of 1790, stones from the castle were used in the construction of the Jagstbrücke and were probably also used to build the church.

The name Heriboldesburg in use today comes from a misinterpretation of the place name as Heriboldesheim in a school book from 1902. However, there is no historical evidence of this name. Rather, the castle probably had no special name, but was only mentioned as the castle or palace of Herbolzheim, whereby the term palace is mostly only used in connection with the old rulership rights and does not refer to a representative building stock.

The plant came into private ownership in 1907 from the Counts of Leiningen-Neudenau. The keep, which is in danger of collapsing, has been secured and made accessible through recent renovation measures. The facility is still privately owned and is not accessible.

investment

With the exception of the reconstructed, approximately 25-meter-high and almost 9-meter-diameter, round donjon and a few remains of the kennel and wall, nothing of the complex has survived today. Residential buildings and stables were once attached to the keep in the north of the core castle, and the ensemble was surrounded by a circular wall. Behind the curtain wall was a semicircular neck ditch . There was also a bailey below the complex . In its place, an Electoral Mainz administration building, later the rectory, was built in the 16th century.

gallery

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  Location of the ruin above the Jagst

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  Keep

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  Remnants of the curtain wall

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our 1956, p. 21.
2. ↑ Our 1956, p. 22.
3. ↑ Our 1956, p. 19.
4. ↑ Our 1956, p. 27.
5. ↑ Our 1956, pp. 20/21.
6. ↑ Our 1956, p. 23.
7. ↑ Our 1956, p. 23/24.
8. ↑ Our 1956, p. 23.
9. ↑ Our 1956, p. 23.
10. ↑ Our 1956, pp. 22/23.
11. ↑ Our 1956, p. 29.

literature

• Rudolf Unser: Herbolzheim an der Jagst, history of the village , Mosbach 1956

Web links

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