Schneeburg ruins (Ehaben)
Snow castle ruins | ||
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Aerial view of the snow castle |
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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 | |
Height: | 516 m above sea level NN | |
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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
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.
literature
- Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz : The castles in the medieval Breisgau, I. Northern part: half volume AK . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-7364-X , pp. 98-106.
- Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas, Volume 2. Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1987, ISBN 3-87799-075-4 , pp. 39–42.
- Walter Fahl: At the gates of Freiburg - Schönberg-Batzenberg-Panorama , Freiburg i. Br., Kehrer, 1986.
- Helmut Bender, Karl-Bernhard Knappe, Klauspeter Wilke: Castles in southern Baden . 1st edition. Verlag Karl Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979, ISBN 3-921340-41-1 , pp. 166-169.
- Peter Paul Albert : The snow castle. On the history of the castle and its owners , In: Journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore of Freiburg, the Breisgau and the adjacent landscapes, Freiburg im Breisgau, Volume 25, 1909, pp. 51-90.
- Peter Paul Albert : To the history of the snow castle whether Ehaben , In: Journal of the society for the conveyance of the history, antiquity and folklore of Freiburg, the Breisgau and the adjacent landscapes, Freiburg im Breisgau, Volume 23, 1907, pp. 339-344 .
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Tübingen and Leipzig, 1904, sixth volume, first division - Freiburg district; Pp. 295–296 ( digitized version from Heidelberg University Library ).
- Fridrich Pfaff : The snow castles in Breisgau and the Snewelin of Freiburg , in: Alemannia. Journal of Alemannic and Franconian history, folklore, art and language , at the same time journal of the Society for History of Freiburg im Breisgau, Volume 32, 1904, pp. 299–316.
- Josef Bader: Documents about the snow castle near Ehaben im Breisgau , in: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, Volume 18, 1865, pp. 462–476 in the Google book search.
- Ildefons von Arx: History of the Ehaben rulership in 1792, taken from old documents, handed over to print by Joseph Booz, the current pastor of Ehaben , Verlag Franz Xaver Wangler, Freiburg im Breisgau 1860 in the Google book search.
Web links
- Entry on snow castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Schneeburg Castle at burgenarchiv.de
- Schneeburg (Ehaben) at alemannische-seiten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bader: ZGORh. Vol. 18, p. 463.
- ↑ Bader: ZGORh. Vol. 18, p. 465.
- ↑ Edmund Weeger in: Der Schönberg , Helge Körner (ed.), Lavori-Verlag, Freiburg (2006), ISBN 3-935737-53-X , pp. 286, 323.
- ↑ Ehaben in the course of time , Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1988, ISBN 3-89264-263-X , p. 33.