Willenburg ruins

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Willenburg
Brick doorway inside the castle ruins

Brick doorway inside the castle ruins

Alternative name (s): Schlössle
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Schiltach
Geographical location 48 ° 17 '8.1 "  N , 8 ° 22' 19.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '8.1 "  N , 8 ° 22' 19.4"  E.
Height: 656.1  m above sea level NN

The Willenburg , also called Schlössle , is the ruin of a hilltop castle near Schiltach in the Rottweil district in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

Geographical location

The castle is about two kilometers outside of Schiltach at 656.1  m above sea level. NN above the old pass road to Rottweil , the so-called Schiltacher Steige , towards Aichhalden , in the Black Forest .

history

Willenburg's stone oven

The castle ruins are the remnants of a high medieval castle that had been forgotten and, based on assumptions, was uncovered again in 1959 by nature lovers from Schiltach.

It was built around the year 1100. The builders were either the first dukes of Teck , who were a sideline of the Zähringen , or even the dukes of Zähringen themselves.

The Willenburg was supposed to take care of those passing by, customs were levied here and the old traffic route over to Rottweil was checked.

So the Willenburg can be seen as the predecessor of the Schiltach Castle or the city of Schiltach, which took over the function of the Willenburg around 1250. A town with a castle could do this better.

The Willenburg disintegrated from this point on. In the late Middle Ages people spoke of the Willenburger Burgstall , which suggests that the castle was gone.

Building description

The castle's 30.3 meter deep fountain

During the excavations from 1959 to 1970, the foundations and wall parts of a castle complex measuring 36 by 20 meters came to light, as well as ceramic parts that also suggest the age of the castle. You can still see the remains of the wall, ramparts and a 30.3 meter deep castle well .

The Museum am Markt in Schiltach shows an exhibition on the excavations on the Willenburg.

literature

  • Hermann Fautz: The Willenburg . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Issue 21: Castles and Palaces of Central Baden , 1934, pp. 428–431 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
  • Hans Harter: The Willenburg . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 50th annual volume 1970, pp. 274–291 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
  • Hans Harter: The Willenburg near Schiltach . 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. 468–474 ( digitized version of the Freiburg 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. 670.

Web links

Commons : Ruine Willenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files