Schalksburg (Oitringen)

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Schalksburg
Castle rock from the northwest

Castle rock from the northwest

Alternative name (s): Oedenburg
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: ruin
Construction: Small ashlar masonry
Place: Strassberg
Geographical location 48 ° 11 '17.7 "  N , 9 ° 5' 27.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '17.7 "  N , 9 ° 5' 27.2"  E
Height: 760  m above sea level NN
Schalksburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Schalksburg

The Schalksburg is a former spur castle in the area of ​​the municipality of Straßberg between Albstadt and Sigmaringen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

The castle ruins are freely accessible and now serves as a lookout point.

Geographical location

The ruins of the Schalksburg are located 760 meters above sea ​​level in the middle of the valley slope on a rocky spur of a mountain corner protruding into the Schmeiental , about 1.3 kilometers north of the church in Straßberg.

history

The emergence of the "small" Schalksburg (also called Ödenburg) is dated to the first half of the 12th century based on the evaluation of reading pottery finds. The original name and owner of the castle are not proven. A connection with the lords of Schalksburg, documented since 1211, and their eponymous castle between the Albstadt districts of Burgfelden and Laufen an der Eyach is doubted today. At their feet in the valley floor was the village of Oitringen, first mentioned in 1264 and probably lost around 1500. The first written mention of the Schalksburg near Straßberg can be found in 1333 in the descriptions of the Beuron monastery . The abandonment of the castle as a residence must be assumed for the first half of the 13th century.

In 1992 and 1993 the ruins were restored by the Jan von Werth working group from Straßberg .

description

Basement of the keep
Inner tower wall with small cuboid facing

The Burgplatz is formed by an elongated rock ridge sloping to the west, which flows into a steep spur above the Schmeiental. A 20 meter long neck ditch , through which a narrow street leads today, delimits the castle area on the mountain side. Several rock steps and leveled hillside terraces in the south and north suggest the location of buildings as well as that of an east tower behind the neck ditch. In the middle of the ridge, above a flat depression (the castle courtyard) with the presumed access gate in the south, there is an approximately 7 × 7.40 meter ruin tower. The inner shell of the basement with well-crafted outer facing made of small blocks as well as the approximately 5.5 meter high core masonry on the north side and a large remains of the foundation wall on the south side have been preserved. This tower or keep stands in the center of an approximately 7 × 45 meter area of ​​the former core castle , which stretches from east to west on the ridge. It is bounded there by a trench-like chasm. Above this section trench , on the western rock head of the Spornspitze, there are remains of a tower-like building. A series of rock steps carved out of the stone form the entrance. On the north-western outer edge, layers of small ashlars of the walling have been preserved. The barely meter-thick remains of the wall suggest a two-storey tower house with a timber-framed top and a floor area of ​​around 7 × 7 meters.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 310-313.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 262-265.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 5 • West Alb. Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 259-264.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 71-73.

Web links

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