Walkenstein ruins
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 Walkenstein castle ruins |
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| Alternative name (s): | Falkenstein, Valkenstein | |
| Creation time : | probably 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Tower remnant | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone masonry | |
| Place: | Oberwolfach -Walke | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 20 '34.8 " N , 8 ° 13' 32.9" E | |
| Height: | 359 m above sea level NN | |
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The ruins of Walkenstein , also known as Falkenstein or Valkenstein , are the ruins of a spur castle at 359 m above sea level. NN on the western foothills of the "Webersköpfles" in the Walke district of the municipality of Oberwolfach in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The tower castle was probably built by the Counts of Fürstenberg in the 14th century as a guard and residential tower to secure the valley and to monitor the mining rights and the transport of ore. In 1364 Aigelwart von Valkenstein is mentioned as the owner of the castle. From 1988 to 1990 the remains of the tower castle were archived and secured.
From the former castle complex, which consisted only of a residential tower, the up to two meter high and square remains of the foundation wall of the residential tower with the dimensions of 7.80 by 8.75 meters and an average wall thickness of 1.50 meters have been preserved. Its masonry consists of granite rubble stones. On its east side, towards the rising mountainside, the tower has a neck ditch .
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 7, Tübingen 1908, p. 693 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 637.
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 81.
- Hermann Fautz: Walkenstein Castle . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 50th Annual Volume 1970, pp. 340–344 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Hans-Gottfried Haas: Walkenstein Castle in the Wolftal . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Volume 64. Publishing house of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Offenburg 1984, pp. 454–455 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
Web links
- Entry on Walkenstein in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
- Walkenstein Castle at burgenarchiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Gottfried Haas: The Walkenstein Castle in the Wolftal . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and Palaces in Mittelbaden , p. 454 f.
- ↑ villains for the panoramic views. schwarzwaelder-bote.de , March 12, 2014, accessed on August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Hans-Gottfried Haas: The Walkenstein Castle in the Wolftal . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and Palaces in Mittelbaden , p. 454.