Niedergundelfingen ruins
| Niedergundelfingen ruins | ||
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 In the center of the Umlaufberg with the Niedergundelfingen ruins, in the foreground Hohengundelfingen |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | Enclosing walls | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Münsingen -Gundelfingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 19 '17.6 " N , 9 ° 29' 57.6" E | |
| Height: | 653 m above sea level NN | |
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The Niedergundelfingen ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 653 m above sea level. NN high Schlossberg, a circulating mountain of the Große Lauter 800 meters west of Hohengundelfingen Castle in the Gundelfingen district of the Münsingen community in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
history
Probably the first castle was built around 1080 as the ancestral seat of the Lords of Gundelfingen and was built around 1250 by the knight Swigger IX. de Novogundelfing expanded. In 1264 and 1268 Swigger von Neugundelfingen was mentioned in a document. On February 11, 1407, Friedrich III. the property to Jörg von Woellwarth , who sold the property to Wolf von Stein zu Klingenstein on March 1, 1409, and before 1617 the property went to Reichlin von Meldegg . Around 1700 the castle included a chapel, a bakery, barns and stables as well as several meadows, fields and fishing water. In 1833 the castle was sold to private by Baron Reichlin. After further changes of ownership, Freytag school council acquired the castle and built an apartment on the castle ruins. After the partial collapse of the surrounding wall in 1966, it was rebuilt.
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description
The castle, which does not have a typical for the time keep decreed consists of a rectangular perimeter wall , by a moat wall was surrounded. The entrance to the castle was preceded by a bailey , of which the remains of the wall are still preserved.
The original living area was in the north of the complex. The Palas of the living area had Romanesque double windows on the north wall. A Gothic gate hall, which was reached via a moat that is now filled in, is still preserved. Likewise, the cistern well inside the castle and the cellar on the east wall of the castle wall. It is not known when the chapel, which was restored in 1988 and consecrated to St. Michael and was considered derelict in 1715, was not known.
literature
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
- Günter Schmitt : Hohengundelfingen . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 2. Alb Middle-South. Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 183-192.
