Lickstone ruin

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Lickstone ruin
Alternative name (s): Lägstein, Lechstein, Reckstein
Creation time : second half of the 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: The ruins, remains of the wall of the residential tower and a moat have been preserved
Standing position : Unknown
Construction: Quarry stone and ashlar masonry in stock
Place: Burladingen - Gauselfingen
Geographical location 48 ° 16 '26.4 "  N , 9 ° 9' 30.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '26.4 "  N , 9 ° 9' 30.6"  E
Height: 785  m above sea level NN
Leckstein ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Lickstone ruin

The Leckstein ruins , also known as Lägstein , Lechstein or Reckstein , are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 785  m above sea level. NN on a valley slope west of Gauselfingen , a district of Burladingen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Lickstone Ruins (2017)

Historical data about this castle complex are not available to this day. As with the Hasenfratz Castle to the northwest , neither the builder, the residents or a castle nobility nor the reason for the castle's departure are known. Also from the village of Gauselfingen below there is no known local nobility that could have sat in the castle. None of the castle names are considered to be castle names, but are probably derived from field names under Lechstein . They refer to the slope and the small cave on the castle rock. A reference to the Lords of Lichtenstein, who sat on the south-facing double castle Lichtenstein , is possible.

The castle was built in the second half of the 12th century, as the dating of ceramic finds shows. Apparently the residential tower with the polygonal extension was built between 1250 and 1300, as can be seen from the masonry features. The castle was then abandoned during the first half of the 14th century, which can also be inferred from the ceramic finds.

The current name lick stone is first found in 1544, as a field name in a border description, but it is not entirely certain whether this name refers to the castle.

Remnants of the residential tower and the neck ditch are still preserved from the former castle on a hillside, which had a core castle with a residential tower (with extension) and outer bailey as well as a castle courtyard , surrounding wall and neck moat.

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. 132–135.
  • 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. 230-234.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 149–154.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 66-67.

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research , p. 231
  2. ↑ In addition to the extensive ceramic finds, iron items were also found, including a bolt point and knife blades or their fragments. In addition, there is a gilded piece of copper depicting two men, probably priests, objects made of glass, bronze, ivory and sandstone.
  3. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 133 f.

Web links

Commons : Ruine Leckstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files