Praßberg ruins
| Praßberg ruins | ||
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 Keep |
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| Creation time : | 1123 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Keep, walls | |
| Standing position : | Clericals, nobles, ministerials, counts | |
| Place: | Wangen in the Allgäu -Beutelsau | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 42 '39.4 " N , 9 ° 49' 48.2" E | |
| Height: | 606.3 m above sea level NN | |
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The Praßberg ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle above the Argental at 606.3 m above sea level. NN near the hamlet Beutelsau in the Deuchelried district of the city of Wangen im Allgäu in the Ravensburg district in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle ruins are freely accessible at all times.
history
The castle was in 1123 as a castle Brahsberc from the St. Gallen Abbot Manegold of Böttstein-Mammern built, and in 1167 the Lords of Praßberg be Ministeriale the Abbey of St. Gallen, mentioned as the owner. In 1313 Hartmann von Praßberg served Emperor Heinrich VII , after which he was in the service of the Italian city of Pisa .
The Praßbergers sat in the castle until 1397, when it fell to the Lords of Schellenberg . In 1411 Heinrich von Schellenberg sold the castle and the property to the Vogt Heinrich von Summerau zu Leupolz . Hereditary Marshal Hugo Vogt von Alten-Summerau zu Prasberg was married to Walpurgis von Cronheim . From this marriage came Albert von Prasberg, called Vogt zu Summerau and Tax Wangen, father of Bishop Franz Johann Vogt von Altensumerau and Prasberg from Constance . Due to indebtedness, it was forcibly sold in 1731 to the barons of Westernach zu Kronburg, who sold it to Count Joseph Franz von Waldburg-Wolfegg as early as 1749 . The palace was rebuilt during the 18th century and the castle fell into disrepair since 1800.
In 1806 the castle came to the Kingdom of Bavaria , which it ceded to Württemberg in the same year . The castle was inhabited until 1835 and since 1846 it was only a ruin, some of which was removed. Conservation measures have been taking place since 1937.
Say
The damsel on Praßberg
Legend has it that in the wall opening of the keep of the Praßberg castle ruins, a young lady dressed in white appeared in broad daylight.
The damsel, who had been promised to a Ratzenrieder knight, fell in love, attracted by his guitar playing, with a beautiful grinder in the mill below the castle, let herself be kidnapped by him and fled with him.
When the knight wanted to take the young lady as his wife, a quarrel broke out with her father, the knight of Praßberg, in which the damsel's father was stabbed. Since the young lady was responsible for her father's death, the tower from which she had escaped must be haunted.
description
The castle had a keep with a high entrance and an original height of 6 meters on a base area of 9.8 by 9.7 meters and a wall thickness of 3.3 meters in the basement. Up to half its height it now consists of large cuboid cut stones. In addition, one was castle chapel , the St. George's Chapel, a palace and a kennel available.
The Georgskapelle was mentioned in 1414, survived the demolition of 1846, was in good condition until the 1950s, was provided with an emergency roof in 1977, but the decay, aggravated by wanton destruction, was not stopped.
literature
- Hans Ulrich Rudolf (eds.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0508-6 , pp. 400-409.
- Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the Allgäu - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1602-9 , pp. 40-42.
- Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 2: Castle ruins in the West Allgäu and in the neighboring Vorarlberg, in the Württemberg Allgäu, in the northern Allgäu around Memmingen, in the northeast Allgäu around Kaufbeuren and Obergünzburg as well as in the eastern Allgäu and in the adjacent Tyrol . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-115-7 , pp. 102-119.
- 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 .
