Urnburg ruins

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Urnburg ruins
Round tower of the Urnburg from the southeast

Round tower of the Urnburg from the southeast

Alternative name (s): Dalenburg
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: low round roofed tower
Place: Eutingen in the Gäu- Rohrdorf
Geographical location 48 ° 27 '37.2 "  N , 8 ° 46' 16.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '37.2 "  N , 8 ° 46' 16.5"  E
Urnburg ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Urnburg ruins

The ruin Urnburg , also called Dalenburg , is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a wooded hill on the district road K 4711 between Rohrdorf and the L 370 south of the Rohrdorf district of Eutingen im Gäu in the Freudenstadt district in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

history

The Urnburg was once one of the most important castles between Horb am Neckar and the Neckarknie . It has long been the ancestral seat of a branch of theLords of Weitingen. In 1381 Count Rudolf III sold von Hohenberg passed the possession to Duke Leopold III. of Austria . Due to the fact that the pledges had not been released, however, the wife of Rudolf III, Ida von Toggenburg , retained the rule. The castle served her temporarily as a widow's seat. It was not until 1392 that Duke Leopold IV of Austria was able to make use of his right of release. The Urnburg estate was pledged several times by the Austrian owners.

At the end of the 14th century Urnburg got caught up in the turmoil of the city ​​war and was besieged in vain by Margrave Bernhard von Baden . After some back and forth, the lordship came into the possession of the Württemberg Count Eberhard im Bart , after he had previously destroyed the castle in a legal dispute in 1465 until it was uninhabitable. The castle was rebuilt with financial support from King Maximilian I. When there was a falling out with Duke Ulrich von Württemberg , the latter had the Urnburg plundered and burned down. Since then, the Urnburg has served as a granary for a while and in 1576 the ruin and the associated villages came under Austrian rule again, which Napoleon Bonaparte finally put an end to in the Peace of Pressburg in 1805. Since then, the castle ruins have supplied the Rohrdorf farmers with the building materials for their farms and have been torn down.
Only one roofed round tower remains from the former castle .

literature

  • Dietrich Lutz, Siegwalt Schiek: The Urnburg near Weitingen, Eutingen community, Freudenstadt district . Cultural monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg: Little Guides, Volume 14, Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, 1975

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Urnburg at the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
  2. ↑ Pledge deed in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive, accessed on September 17, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Model gives the Urnburg an appearance , Schwarzwälder Bote, March 20, 2011