Ringelstein ruin

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Ringelstein ruin
Ringelstein ruins - view of the ruinous residential tower

Ringelstein ruins - view of the ruinous residential tower

Alternative name (s): Aloisschlössle
Creation time : Second half of the 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: Keep, trench remains
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Quarry stone and small ashlar masonry
Place: Burladingen - Ringingen
Geographical location 48 ° 18 '36 "  N , 9 ° 6' 47.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '36 "  N , 9 ° 6' 47.2"  E
Height: 870  m above sea level NN
Ringelstein ruin (Baden-Württemberg)
Ringelstein ruin

The Ringelstein ruin , also known as Aloisschlössle , is the remainder of a hilltop castle on a rock at 870  m above sea level. NN height between the district Ringingen and the city of Burladingen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

There is no precise information about the early history of Ringelstein Castle, which was called Ringenstein ( Ringenstain ) when it was first mentioned in 1274 . It can be assumed that the Württemberg noble family of the von Ringelstein get their name here. The family of the builders could possibly come from Ringingen, but the fact that they come from the Alsatian Ringelstein Castle is far away.

The castle was built during the second half of the 12th century, as the dating of ceramic finds shows. The lords of the castle are then mentioned several times, for example in 1274 with Sigibold or Swigger von Ringelstein, he was a witness for Count Friedrich V von Zollern , between 1318 and 1332 with Albrecht Hagge von Ringelstein, he was married to Irmgard von Lichtenfels. Albrecht der Hagge von Ringenstein was mentioned in 1328, Heinrich von Killer, nicknamed Affenschmalz, descended from him, he also sat at Killer Castle in the town of the same name, a few kilometers to the west. With the death of Heinrich in 1413, the use of Ringelstein Castle probably also ended, but possibly only with his son Kasper von Ringelstein. The end of the castle during the second half of the 14th century is also confirmed by reading finds. The type of masonry suggests that today's remains of the residential tower do not go back to the time of the 12th century ceramics readings, but only arose during the second half of the 13th century. The tower was probably rebuilt during this time. In 1440 Kaspar von Ringelstein was mentioned when he signed a contract with the municipality of Burladingen for the grazing at the "Burgstall" Ringelstein.

In 1932 measures were taken to secure the ruin.

description

The small castle complex consisted only of a residential tower , which lay on a barely raised rock spur on the valley slope. This spur is cut off from the slope by a neck ditch of different widths and three to five meters deep . The residential tower has an irregular pentagonal shape, its remains still rise about six meters above the rock. In 1932, however, they were even higher. During the security measures from that time, loose stones were removed and a gap was also destroyed. Its masonry consists of rubble stones on its field side and roughly cut small ashlar stones on the other sides. The dimensions of the tower are a maximum of ten meters in length and up to seven meters in width. Since the rock spur on which the tower stands drops ten meters, the foundation had to be adjusted accordingly in stages. The southwest corner of this tower collapsed today, and the high entrance was probably also here . Two floors can still be seen through a beam hole inside, presumably a wooden floor above that was covered with tiles. This is revealed by the found fragments of hollow bricks and lumps of clay. An associated farmyard is presumed below the castle on the edge of the forest on a leveled area. However, no remains of it can be found.

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. 150–153.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 226–229.
  • 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. 173-178.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 62-63.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Friderich Sattlers: History of the Duchy of Württemberg under the government of the Graven . Georg Heinrich Reiss, Tübingen 1768, p. 132 f .
  2. ↑ Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research , p. 226 ff.
  3. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 151
  4. ↑ Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research , p. 227
  5. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 153
  6. ↑ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 152 f.
  7. ↑ Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten Castles of the Swabian Alb , p. 63