Bronnen Castle

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Bronnen Castle in an imposing location

The Bronnen Castle (rarely also: Bronnen Castle ) is a castle complex near Fridingen an der Donau , Tuttlingen district , Baden-Württemberg , owned by the Lords of Enzberg .

Geographical location

The castle complex, which is not accessible to the public, is located on a steeply sloping rock in the Upper Danube Valley . The Danube flows below it . The facility is located in the Tuttlingen district, close to the border with the Sigmaringen district .

History of the castle

View of Bronnen Castle (2014)
View of the Bronnen Castle
Bronnen Castle, view from the button maker rock (2018)

The castle was built around 1100–1150 and was built by an unknown noble family from the Fridingen area. The "Lords of Bronnen" were first mentioned around 1200.

In 1241 the castle and the town of Mühlheim were owned by the Counts of Zollern . Both were pledged in 1303 by Friedrich von Zollern to the Bishop of Constance . In 1380 Friedrich pledged the Bronnen fortress together with Buchheim , Worndorf , Beuron and Irndorf to Swigger von Gundelfingen . In 1389 Swigger took his sister's son, Hans von Zimmer , into the pledge community. The rule was sold in 1391 by Count Friedrich V von Hohenzollern-Schalksburg , known as Mülli, to knight Konrad von Weitingen .

In 1409, Volz and Konrad von Weitingen sold Bronnen Castle and the city of Mühlheim to Friedrich and Engelhard von Enzberg, who came from the lords of Enzberg , who had previously lived on the middle Enz .

In 1516, Friedrich von Enzberg pledged Bronnen Castle for 300 guilders to Johann Gättling, a citizen of Rottweil . After serious conflicts from 1560 to 1580 between Rudolf II. Von Enzberg and the Beuron monastery over the protective and umbrella bailiwick, Sigmund von Enzberg succeeded in the dispute in 1615 by renouncing the umbrella and box bailiwick, as well as all authorities and rights over the monastery to be enclosed with Beuron.

Between 1731 and 1755 the dilapidated castle was converted into a hunting lodge by Nikolaus Karl von Enzberg and, after his death, by his widow Maria Ursula von Hallwil . In 1755 the castle chapel was rebuilt.

King Wilhelm I of Württemberg declared Bronnen free property of the Lords of Enzberg in 1857.

During the time of National Socialism, the Nazi regime expropriated in favor of the Nazi Reichsfrauenführer Gertrud Scholtz-Klink . She had leased the castle for 50 years through the Frauenwerk and had it restored with her own resources. The luxurious furnishings included precious tapestries with which the large room on the top floor was hung and resembled a medieval knight's hall. Although she described the castle as her "beloved refuge", she hardly ever used it. A more recent ghost story dates from this time: The victim of the ghost attack in 1935 is said to have been the one who lived at Bronnen Castle. The ghosts frightened her so much that she fled to the monks on the neighboring Gallushof. With reference to the cloister , the monks refused her entry and, according to the story, she had to spend the night in the cowshed.

After the war ended in 1945, the French confiscated the castle. An overheated chimney caused a devastating roof fire on December 23, 1946. Once again in the possession of the von Enzberg family, the fire damage was repaired from 1947 to 1949 and a new roof structure was built. In 1988 the interior of the hunter's house was also renovated.

literature

  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 315-318.
  • Willi Hermann: Kallenberg Castle / Bronnen Castle . Published by Heimatkreis Fridingen e. V. (= collected essays on the history of Fridinger; vol. 10). Steels Druck & Verlag, Eigeltingen 2001.
  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 3 - Danube Valley: Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 226-234.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , p. 111.
  • 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 , pp. 189-192.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1978, pp. 66–67.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Bronnen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Scholtz-Klink, Gertrud on the pages of www.leo-bw.de (regional information system for Baden-Württemberg)
  2. ^ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): History. Of robbers, ghosts and hidden treasures. Exciting and informative stories from the Danube valley delight 200 listeners at the theme evening in Wildenstein Castle. In: Südkurier of May 9, 2007
  3. ↑ Fire at Schloss Bronnen (= operational report by Alfons Bucher) Published in: Collected essays on the history of Fridingen, Volume 4 on the pages of the Fridingen home district

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 47.4 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 4 ″  E