Schlossbühl (Göggingen)

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Schlossbühl
Castle type : Unsafe location / hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Krauchenwies- Göggingen

The Schloßbühl is a mountain near Göggingen , a district of the municipality of Krauchenwies , in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg . Based on the name, a castle stables are suspected, but this has not yet been proven.

location

The location of the abandoned castle is not exactly localized, but the field names "am Schloßbühl" ( 48 ° 0 '40 "  N , 9 ° 11' 30"  E ) and "am Burgstall" ( 48 ° 0 '44 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 26 ″  E ) suspect the former castle north of the village of Göggingen.

The field name "am Schloßbühl" was mentioned in a document in 1686 and refers to a mountain cone that rises to the left of the Schlattweg. The name could suggest a former castle . However, evidence for such an assumption has never been found.

The field name "am Burgstall" (also known as "der Letten") was mentioned in 1396 and describes a hill north of "Schloßbühl". Another mention comes from 1501 with the field name "on the white Rain am Burgstall". The area behind the Schloßbühl falls into a depression and immediately rises again to a ridge that is higher than the Schloßbühl. There is a good view of the whole Ablachtal and the wide area. The strange elevations there could indicate remains of foundations.

The location can also indicate a Roman watchtower to secure the roads. In Laiz, for example, there was an important intersection with a ford through the Danube , which was evidence of the Roman occupation.

To the northwest above the “Schloßbühl” there is a high trough mentioned in 1602 as “in the Fischgrueb” and in 1621 as “bei der Fischgrueben”. This area has water-rich, raised boggy soil, and reeds were still growing in the 1970s as the last evidence of a fish pit apparently once set up there.

history

There is no reliable information about the builder, but the castle could be related to the former ministerial family of the Knights of Göggingen . These were mentioned in documents between 1202 and 1473.

Not far north of the Schloßbühl, two old streets pass by. These routes, known as the “Old” and “New Post Roads”, could be former army or Roman roads .

Between early autumn 1968 and July 1970, the Deutwang / Kalkofen to Laiz section of the Lake Constance water supply was relocated. The line, made with prestressed concrete pipes, leads from Ringgenbach under the Ablach , up the steep slope on the Schloßbühl and over the saddle between Schloßbühl and Burgstall in the direction of Laiz.

The legend of the Gögginger Schloßbühl

Gustav Kempf wrote the following story "Der Schloßbühl" about the legend of Gögginger Schloßbühl in the Sankt Konrads calendar in 1932 . The story is based on the well-known Schloßbühl poem.

“There is something sacred about bread. As if it were a pilgrimage, so solemnly my blessed mother went with me every year on the Sunday after the Trinity Festival through the ripening cornfields, to bring them the Trinity water according to the old local peasant tradition. My home village lay peacefully down in the Ablachtal on Sundays, and God looked after the well-tended crops with his sun blessing all around us on the heights.

Why now the mother wiped her wet eyes so often? And she always looked so worried. Even when we came to a field where heaven had turned my father's deed into rich hope. I did not understand the need yet, the ordination on the trembling lips: 'Walt God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit!'. Often I could see her standing between field and field in the middle of the green stalks, her hands fell, her tearful eyes directed to the sky: 'Oh good God, save us from lightning and hail and give us our dear bread again this year. ' I learned it from my mother: there is something sacred about bread.

There is a ridge in the north of the village. It separates the small valley of the Ablach from the upper Danube valley. A hill juts out from this ridge, which bears the name Schloßbühl. And yet not a single stone is a witness of a former castle that stood up there.

But my father - God bless him - knew something weird to say to me about it when we walked past Schloßbühl into our Schlattwald and I patted next to him with a hundred questions: 'It was in the old days. The huts of our ancestors in the village over there still had thatched roofs. They reached so far down to the floor that you could almost reach them with your hand. Just like a flock of frightened sheep around a shepherd, so the huts crouched around the poor church. Because the need of the poor people was great at that time. A very bad knight lived in his castle at the Schlossbühl. He harassed the peasants like a hard bailiff with all sorts of interest and tithes, duties and services and played a god-forgotten game with the defenseless villagers, in which he rode their precious fruit in a wild hunt with his savage companions. There was a lot of fear and need in the village.

Once, as so often before, there was again great hunger in the valley. Then the bad guy from Schloßbühl took the last grain of the miserable peasants from the granaries. And made the men grind, the mothers cry and the children die.

Because they could no longer watch the misery, two venerable old men finally dared to go out to Schloßbühl to seek mercy for the desperate peasants. But they had hardly begun their request when the tough man interrupted them with a horrible curse at which his wife offered a scornful laugh.

Then the knight's child came through the door and ran up to the mother, crying. It had fallen into the dirt outside in the courtyard and was now very badly covered with dirt. And now the two trembling old men had to watch as the woman saw the beautiful loaf of bread hollowing out the rind and wiping the dirt off the child's face and robe. The so dishonored bread, however, threw it through the window of the starving village with a sneer.

When the two old men saw the sacrilege, they crossed themselves in horror and rushed out of the castle, down the slope, as if they had seen the corporalities themselves. From the village, however, the people saw a dark cloud suddenly gathering over the castle. A wild fire flashed out of it, and with a terrible clap of thunder, God's anger struck the castle and its inhabitants deep into the mountain. Some claim to have seen a sulfur-fiery dragon descending into the castle.

Many years ago people dug for the castle, but neither the castle nor its sinful inhabitants have ever been found.

So God punishes arrogance and protected his precious gift, which must grow up out of much flow and tears, worries and hope, prayer and God's grace.

Look, boy, that's why our dear mother draws the cross in awe over every fresh loaf that she slices for us, first with the knife. Never forget! There is something sacred about bread. '"

- Gustav Kempf : The Schloßbühl

investment

Information on the scope and architecture of the system is not known due to the unsafe location. However, the soil forms could be the remains of artificial embankments. An aerial survey or an excavation could bring clarity.

In response to an initial inquiry from Herbert Fießinger and an on-site inspection with a representative of the Monument Office in 2007 as well as a further private inquiry to the State Office for Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg regarding the protection status of the parcels, it emerged that for the time being there was no urgency and interest in an archaeological investigation, let alone state funding for one Probe , stratum or excavation are available.

Such places were called Burgstall, on which a medieval castle once stood. Often there are still ruins or small remnants, but often only the name and memory remain, as in this case. Therefore it seems more likely that it was once either a Celtic Viereckschanze or a cult site , or rather a Roman watchtower to secure the nearby Roman road that led past the Hohschirm in the Josefslust wildlife park .

The castle complex , should it exist on the Schloßbühl, is threatened by a wandering demolition edge on its southwest side, at the so-called "Täschle" . This is due to a landslide on February 28, 1937, in which about 200 cubic meters of earth, gravel and sand set in motion. In the process, many small pots and ears were dragged along and covered. To what extent the long-distance water pipeline of the Lake Constance water supply is to blame for a further crumbling of the Schloßbühl cannot be proven against the opinion of a few of the population of Göggingen.

annotation

  1. ↑ The archaeological evidence failed to materialize so far
  2. ↑ a b c d Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronik. Volume III: 1981 to 2007 . Göggingen. May 2007. p. 232
  3. ^ A b c Gustav Kempf: The Gögginger village book . Community of Göggingen. Göggingen 1971 p. 127
  4. ^ Gustav Kempf: The Gögginger village book . Community of Göggingen. Göggingen 1971 p. 128
  5. ↑ Herbert Fießinger: Two forgotten Gögginger highways . In: Ders .: Gögginger Chronik. Volume II: 1945 to 1980 . Göggingen. June 2005. pp. 229-231.
  6. ↑ Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronicle. Volume II: 1945 to 1980 . Göggingen. June 2005. p. 314f.
  7. ↑ Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronicle. Volume III: 1981 to 2007 . Göggingen. May 2007. p. 111
  8. ↑ Gustav Kempf: The Schloßbühl . In: Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronik. Volume III: 1981 to 2007 . Göggingen. May 2007. pp. 110f.
  9. ↑ Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronicle. Volume II: 1945 to 1980 . Göggingen. June 2005. p. 28
  10. ↑ See Deutsche Bodensee-Zeitung of March 3, 1937. In: Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronik. Volume I: Until 1945 . Göggingen. June 2004. p. 463
  11. ↑ Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronicle. Volume II: 1945 to 1980 . Göggingen. June 2005. p. 27

literature

  • Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronicle. Volume I: Until 1945 . Göggingen. June 2004
  • Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronicle. Volume II: 1945 to 1980 . Göggingen. June 2005
  • Herbert Fießinger: Gögginger Chronicle. Volume III: 1981 to 2007 . Göggingen. May 2007
  • Gustav Kempf: The Gögginger village book . Community of Göggingen. Göggingen 1971
  • Gustav Kempf: The Schloßbühl . In: Sankt Konrads Calendar. for the year. Catholic folk calendar of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . Karlsruhe, Badenia, 1932

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