Ruin Stöffeln
| Ruin Stöffeln | ||
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| Creation time : | 1000 to 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Reutlingen - Gönningen - "Stöffelberg" | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 26 '16.4 " N , 9 ° 9' 19.4" E | |
| Height: | 736.4 m above sea level NN | |
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The ruins called Stöffeln are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 736.4 m above sea level. NN high Stöffelberg in the Gönningen district of the Baden-Württemberg city of Reutlingen in the Reutlingen district .
history
The castle was built in the 12th century by the noblemen von Stöffeln and mentioned in 1055 as Stofola . Around 1300 the Lords of Stöffeln had to sell the castle and the city to Count Eberhard von Württemberg , and in 1388 the castle was destroyed in the city war of Reutlingen and fell into disrepair. The first excavations took place in 1885 . In 1930, further excavations took place under the leadership of Konrad Albert Koch .
Presumably the abbess of the free worldly women's monastery in Buchau , Anna von Weinburg, came from the ruins of Stöffeln.
description
The castle complex consisted of two castles with a bailey in between , divided by three sectional trenches driven into the rock . The western front castle dates from the 12th century, the eastern rear castle from the 13th century. In addition, the castle had a moat , a shield wall and a square keep on a base area of 6.35 by 6.35 meters and with a wall thickness of 1.5 meters. Wall, moat and wall remains of the complex are still preserved. Former buildings can only be guessed at.
literature
- Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb. A contribution to ceramics and castle research (= research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 26). Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 137-140.
- Wolfgang Achnitz (Hrsg.): The knight with the goat. Konrads von Stoffeln "Gauriel von Muntabel" (= texts and text history. Vol. 46). Reissued, introduced and commented. Niemeyer Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-484-36046-1 (also: Münster, University, dissertation, 1992/1993).
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 4: Alb Middle-North. Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 351-358.
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Theil: The (free worldly) women's monastery Buchau am Federsee (= Germania Sacra . NF vol. NF 32: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. = The diocese of Constance. Vol. 4). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1994, ISBN 3-11-014214-7 , p. 221.