Zindelstein ruins

Zindelstein ruins
Zindelstein ruins
Creation time :	before 1225
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Wall remains, stump of the donjon
Standing position :	Counts, ministerials
Place:	Donaueschingen- Wolterdingen
Geographical location	47 ° 59 '9.6 "  N , 8 ° 22' 59.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '9.6 "  N , 8 ° 22' 59.9"  E
Height:	750  m above sea level NN

The Zindelstein ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 750  m above sea level. NN between Furtwangen and Wolterdingen, a district of the city of Donaueschingen in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in Baden-Württemberg . It lies on a rock spur on the left bank of the Breg .

history

The castle was probably built in the 12th century by the Counts of Zähringen and mentioned in a document in 1225. It served to protect the connecting road between the Breisgau and Villingen and together with the Kirnberg and Warenburg castles formed a fortress line. After the death of Duke Berthold V , the last Zähringer, in 1218, the property came as heir to the Counts of Urach , who now called themselves Counts of Freiburg . From the middle of the 13th century the castle was owned by the Fürstenberg family and in the 14th century belonged to Count Hugo von Fürstenberg. After the Fürstenbergers had built Neu-Fürstenberg Castle further west near Hammereisenbach , Zindelstein Castle lost its importance and was mentioned more and more often as the Burgstall . In 1497 the castle went to Jörg Stähelin von Stockburg, but in 1505 it was bought back by Count Wolfgang von Fürstenberg . On May 7, 1525, the castle was destroyed in the German Peasants' War by the Klettgauer Haufen under Hans Müller and later used as a quarry.

Zähringer ministers lived at the castle for a while . Countess Adelheid, the widow of Count Egino V , who later went to the Günterstal monastery south of Freiburg im Breisgau as a nun , also lived there. Count Gottfried von Freiburg-Fürstenberg, a son of Eginos V, who later was Canon of Constance, also lived on Zindelstein.

investment

The castle complex was separated from the plateau by a ditch . The oldest part of the castle is probably the Stauffer period dungeon . A younger outer bailey was located south of the main castle , which was partially destroyed by a landslide in 1970. Remnants of the wall and the stump of the keep are still preserved from the former castle complex.

Say

There are also several legends about Zindelstein Castle. According to the best known, a knight of Zindelstein moved to the Orient during the crusade and returned home with rich booty. Underneath was a splendid carbuncle which the knight occasionally placed on the castle battlements. Its sparkle (“Zündeln”) lit up the entire Bregtal valley and gave the castle its name. Another legend tells that once playing children discovered a secret passage on the "Bummiges Mark", a boundary stone near Tannheim, which led from Zindelstein Castle to Tannheim Monastery. In the same place, the ghosts of the Lords of Zindelstein are said to frighten hikers at night.

literature

• Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 2, Freiburg i. Br. 1890, p. 50 ( digital copy 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 ).
• Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . 1st edition. Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 122-124.
• Peter Schmidt-Thomé: Zindelstein Castle in the Bregtal , 2014 ( digitized from Heidelberg University Library ).
• Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 184-188.

Web links

• Zindelstein Castle Wolterdingen at alemannische-seiten.de
• Zindelstein castle ruins in the Bregtal ( memento from April 19, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) at schwarzwaldfuehrer.de
• Zindelstein Castle - a piece of the region's history is falling apart , Badische Zeitung , April 13, 2002.
• 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. ^ Peter Schmidt-Thomé: The Zindelstein Castle in the Bregtal , 2014.