Hertenstein ruins
| Hertenstein ruins | ||
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 Hertenstein ruins with a ditch |
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| Alternative name (s): | Old castle | |
| Creation time : | 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Terrain tracks | |
| Standing position : | Unknown assignment | |
| Place: | Sigmaringen -Nollhof | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 6 '53 " N , 9 ° 13' 3" E | |
| Height: | 650 m above sea level NN | |
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The Hertenstein ruins , also known as Hertenstein Castle , Hertinstain , Hartenstein or Altes Schloss , are the ruins of a spur castle of unknown class between Jungnau and Bingen in the Sigmaringen district in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The freely accessible ruin is located on a rock needle at the end of the "Altes Schloss" forest north of Sigmaringen on the right of the Lauchert near Nollhof. The Laucherttal lies at 606 m above sea level. NN , the castle at 650 meters. The few remains of the former knight castles Hertenstein and Isikofen lie on two beautiful rocks opposite each other and separated by the Lauchert.
history
Mentioned for the first time in 1250, the castle was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Hertenstein. The Hertenstein are tribal with the Hornstein people . Both families had the same coat of arms. The founding history of the castle is still unclear.
The first Hertensteiners were not mentioned until the middle of the 13th century. However, ceramic finds prove that a castle must have existed as early as the 12th century. In 1250 the brothers Heinrich and Albrecht von Hertenstein are named as servants of Count Wolfrad von Veringen . The progenitor of the still living members of the von Hornstein-Grüningen family, Burkhard von Hertenstein, lived from 1276 to 1317. Between 1350 and 1385 Brun I moved from Hertenstein to Daugendorf and gave up the small castle. In 1449 Brun III sold the castle stable Hertenstein to the city of Sigmaringen. His descendants call themselves from 1472 "von Hornstein called von Hertenstein" and from 1538 only "von Hornstein".
description
The neck ditch of the former castle can still be seen with a width of 19 meters and 9 meters deep, over which a footbridge, which is supported on a bridge pillar, leads to the former core castle (approx. 8 meters × 4 meters). This area was enough for the residents of that time to probably build a residential tower. A protruding half-timbered storey probably increased the floor area at that time.
literature
- Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 405-408.
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 3 - Danube Valley: Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 23-28.
- Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 87-89.
- Christoph Bizer: Dating castles through ceramics . in: City development in the district of Sigmaringen-Veringen . 1985.
- Walter Bleicher: The castles of those of Hornstein and Hertenstein . In: BC - Local history sheets for the Biberach district . No. 2, 1980.
- Julius Wais: Albführer . Volume II, 1971.
- Chronicles of the Counts of Zimmer 1546-1566 . Volume 1-3. Ed .: Decker Hauff, 1964/67.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Karlheinz Fahlbusch / kf: On idyllic paths to the autumnal Hertenstein . In: Südkurier of October 4, 2002
- ↑ According to another spelling "Burghard"