Warenburg ruins

Warenburg ruins
Remnants of the foundation of a tower
Alternative name (s):	Wartenberg, Warmburg
Creation time :	probably 11th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Place:	Villingen-Schwenningen
Geographical location	48 ° 2 '42.4 "  N , 8 ° 27' 20.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '42.4 "  N , 8 ° 27' 20.5"  E
Height:	745  m above sea level NN

The ruin Warenburg , also called Wartenberg or Warmburg , is the ruin of a castle on today's outskirts of the city of Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest-Baar district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle, which was probably built in the 11th century, was possibly owned by the Zähringers . It was first mentioned in documents in 1320 and formed its own rule with the neighboring villages of Marbach, Rietheim, Klengen, Beckhofen and Grüningen. In addition, it was part of a fortress line with the castles Kirnberg and Zindelstein to protect the connecting roads between the Baar and the Breisgau . In 1326 the Counts of Fürstenberg had to sell the castle to Duke Albrecht II of Austria . In 1472 the city of Villingen acquired the facility and later grinded it. The Meierhof existed until the Thirty Years War and was also destroyed in 1633 in order not to serve as a shelter for the advancing Swedes.

Remnants of the walls and foundations of a tower are still preserved from the former castle complex. The castle plateau, surrounded by a moat , may have had a larger outer bailey .

The Warenburg was considered a meeting place for witches by the population . Many of those convicted of witches and sorcerers in Villingen in the 17th century testified under torture that they had danced with the devil on the hill.

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 2, Freiburg i. Br. 1890, pp. 156–157 ( digitized version from Heidelberg University Library ).
• Karl Siegfried Bader : Kürnburg, Zindelstein and Warenburg - bases of the Zähringer rule over Baar and the Black Forest , 1937 ( digitized at breisgau-burgen.de ).
• Heiko Wagner: Zähringer castles on the Baar and in the Black Forest. Between myth and truth. Schau-ins-Land , 133rd year, 2014, pp. 7–20 ( digital copy from Freiburg University Library ).
• 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 .

Web links

Commons : Warenburg ruin (Villingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the ruins of Warenburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Warenburg Castle at burgenarchiv.de
• Castles in the Bregtal and the surrounding area ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at thz-historia.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , p. 154.
2. ↑ See Annelore Walz: History of the witch hunt in Villingen. In: Villingen and Schwenningen. History and culture , Hermann Kuhn Verlag 1998, p. 195.