Wolfach ruins

Wolfach ruins
	Wolfach castle ruins
Alternative name (s):	Wolva Castle, Altwolfach, Schlössle
Creation time :	around 1030
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Free nobles
Place:	Wolfach
Geographical location	48 ° 18 '42.9 " N , 8 ° 13' 14.9" E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '42.9 " N , 8 ° 13' 14.9" E
Height:	318 m above sea level NN

The castle Wolfach , even Altwolfach or Schlössle called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle in Wolfach in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

location

The ruin lies on a steep mountain cone at around 318 m above sea level. NN in a side valley of the Kinzig on the left bank of the Wolf between Wolfach and the district of Church of Oberwolfach .

history

When exactly the castle was built is not documented. The Salian architecture of the castle suggests that it was built towards the end of the 11th century by the Lords of Wolfach . In 1084 the name "Wolfacha" appears for the first time. A Fridericus de Wolfhacha (Friedrich von Wolfach) is said to have lived in the castle at this time. After that, however, it disappears from history again. It was not until 1272 that the castle's sources were found again. A miracle hen is said to have laid two eggs with two yolks in her nest "in castro Wolfach" every day. Between 1273 and 1291, Count Friedrich von Fürstenberg († 1296) married Udilhild von Wolfach, the last member of the family. The entire rule fell to the Fürstenbergers by inheritance .

Around 1380 we heard of a "hoping for the castle". From 1447 to 1449 extensive renovation work was carried out on the "burgk ober Wolfach" by Heinrich VI. carried out by Fürstenberg . The castle was apparently destroyed in the Thirty Years War . There is also the possibility of the castle slowly deteriorating. Apparently the military value was so low that it was not rebuilt. In 1778 the prince allowed the residents to remove stones from the existing masonry to secure the banks of the Wolf.

After that the remnants of the family castle of those von Wolfach finally fell into a deep slumber until 1977 the Wolfach Black Forest Association exposed and secured the remaining foundation walls for two years as part of the homeland maintenance.

literature

Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 7 (Offenburg district), Tübingen 1908, p. 693 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).

Hans Harter: Nobility and castles in the upper Kinzig area. Studies on settlement and high medieval rulership in the Middle Black Forest pp. 54–96, Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg, ISBN 3-495-49937-7 .

Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Ortenau district. Witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Page 120, Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 .

Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories and imperial immediate families from the Middle Ages to the present. 6th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44333-8 , p. 731.

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Page 676, Stürtz-Verlag, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 .

Franz Disch: The old Wolfach Castle . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Issue 21: Castles and Palaces in Central Baden , 1934, pp. 403–405 ( digitized version from Freiburg University Library ).

Josef Krausbeck: The old Wolfach Castle . The Ortenau 50 (1970), Offenburg 1970, pp. 344-350 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Eugen Dieterle: Wolfach Castle . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Volume 64. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , pp. 439–442 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

Web links

Commons : Burg Wolfach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Wolfach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual references / comments

↑ Hans Harter: The Lords of Wolfach and their rule. Lecture at the annual general meeting on October 16, 1977 in Wolfach. In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, 59th annual volume 1979, p. 31 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
↑ The details contradict each other here.

[1] Hans Harter: The Lords of Wolfach and their rule. Lecture at the annual general meeting on October 16, 1977 in Wolfach. In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, 59th annual volume 1979, p. 31 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).

[2] The details contradict each other here.