Schneeburg ruins (Ehaben)

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Snow castle ruins
Aerial view of the snow castle

Aerial view of the snow castle

Creation time : before 1312
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Free nobles
Place: Bring
Geographical location 47 ° 57 '38 "  N , 7 ° 47' 53"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '38 "  N , 7 ° 47' 53"  E
Height: 516  m above sea level NN
Schneeburg ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Snow castle ruins

The snow castle is the ruin of a summit castle at 516  m above sea level. NN high western secondary summit of Schönberg on the district of Ehaben in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in Baden-Württemberg . It lies between Uffhausen in today's Freiburg district of Sankt Georgen and Ebringen.

history

The Schnewlins , one of the most respected and wealthy families in Freiburg in the 13th century, are believed to be the builders and namesake of the castle due to the old name "Schnewesberg" . According to other statements, the castle was built by the Lords of Hornberg . It was first mentioned in 1312. In 1349 Werner von Hornberg handed them over to the feudal sovereignty of the Sankt Gallen monastery , from which he received them back as a man fief . Thus the small feudal lordship of Ehaben was created. It seems that Messrs Schnewlin still had certain rights to it or received income from it, because on June 7, 1387, Messrs. Schnewlin von Wiger and the Hornberg brothers Hanman, Ulrich, Werner and Brun because of the snow castle and the village of Eringen concluded a contract.

Because Ulrich von Hornberg pledged the snow castle to his son-in-law Berchtold Schnewlin Berenlapp , it came back to Messrs. Schnewlin. Through a contract concluded on November 19, 1426, Konrad, the grandson of Ulrich von Hornberg, enforced the right to redeem the snow castle from the pledge against payment of 1200 gold guilders . However, since he could not raise the money, he quickly married the daughter of the mortgagee and, with the approval of the St. Gallen monastery, prescribed her 2500 guilders on the rule. Thus the man feud was transformed into a "woman feud". In 1444 the Junker Konrat von Hornberg was enfeoffed by the St. Gallen monastery with the fortress Schneeburg, the associated building yard and the bailiwick of Ehaben and Thalhausen. In 1448 he was followed by the Junker Anthoni von Hornberg, probably his son, against which Albrecht von Habsburg lodged a complaint with the abbot in St. Gallen on behalf of Konrat von Hornberg.

Probably before 1500 the castle was abandoned and left to decay, as the Falkensteiner local rulers had acquired land in the village of Ebringen and took up residence at that time. This first Ebringer castle stood on the site of what is today, built between 1711 and 1713.

For the assumption often expressed in older literature that the castle was destroyed by the Margravians in the battles of the Peasant War in 1525 , e.g. B. Josef Bader , however, no evidence or sources can be determined.

description

Nebenraum Hauptraum
Floor plan of the ruin with drawn camera positions of the panorama recordings of the adjoining room (blue) and the main room (red)

Remains of the keep and a residential building have been preserved from the castle . The ruin is about 37 meters long and about 17 meters wide and is surrounded by a wide moat , which is cut deepest out of the rock on the north side. There is the rest of the keep with four floors and two windows to the north. The two-part residential building stands over a small courtyard in the south. New sandstone cornices are built into the window openings, which correspond to what was found in fragments in the old well shaft . The former entrance can be assumed to be in the defensive wall of the courtyard, which has now disappeared . In the courtyard, instead of the old well, a stone surround can be seen, which is sometimes used as a fireplace.

In the 1930s, there were wooden viewing terraces and stairs leading to them on part of the walls.

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Panorama of the main room (location: red point in the map)
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Panorama of the adjoining room (location: blue point on the map)

literature

Web links

Commons : Schneeburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bader: ZGORh. Vol. 18, p. 463.
  2. ↑ Bader: ZGORh. Vol. 18, p. 465.
  3. ↑ Edmund Weeger in: Der Schönberg , Helge Körner (ed.), Lavori-Verlag, Freiburg (2006), ISBN 3-935737-53-X , pp. 286, 323.
  4. ↑ Ehaben in the course of time , Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1988, ISBN 3-89264-263-X , p. 33.