Hohendießen ruins

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Hohendießen ruins
Alternative name (s): Hohendießen Castle
Creation time : 14th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Considerable remains of the wall
Standing position : Lower nobility
Place: Horb am Neckar -Dießen
Geographical location 48 ° 25 '43.6 "  N , 8 ° 35' 23.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '43.6 "  N , 8 ° 35' 23.2"  E
Height: 530  m above sea level NN
Hohendießen ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Hohendießen ruins

The ruins of Hohendießen , also called Hohendießen Castle , are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 530  m above sea level. NN on a hill northwest of the district of Dießen (near Hochbergstrasse) in the town of Horb am Neckar in the Freudenstadt district ( Baden-Württemberg ).

history

The castle was first mentioned in the 14th century as a Hohenberg fief of the lower nobility dynasty of the Dießer.

In 1334 Ulrich and Wolf der Dießer were named as the owners of the castle, whose local noble family was mentioned in a Rechenbach deed of donation as early as 1100 and called themselves "Dießer" at the end of the 13th century. After several changes of ownership, the castle was damaged in the course of the German Peasant War in 1525 and passed to the Lords of Wernau in 1552 , who expanded it into a castle from 1557 to 1580 . In 1696 the castle was inherited by the Stauffenberg taverns , who sold the castle and the estate to the Swiss monastery of Muri in 1708 . In 1803 the castle and the place came to the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in the course of secularization . After the castle had belonged to the von Ow-Wachendorf family from 1889, the former community of Dießen took over the castle in 1965 and in 1969 had security work carried out on the ruins, which was continued in 1990 by the town of Horb am Neckar.

literature

  • Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the northern Black Forest - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1601-0 , pp. 115-116.
  • Wilfried Pfefferkorn: Castles of our country, Volume 3: Upper Neckar with Stuttgart and the surrounding area . J. Fink Verlag, Stuttgart undated (1973?), ISBN 3-7718-0241-5 , p. 24.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dießen at www.leo-bw.de
  2. ↑ Hohendießen Castle at burgenwelt.de