Burleswagen Castle

Burleswagen Castle
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Creation time :	Probably second half of the 11th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Receive
Standing position :	Among other things, Reichsburg
Place:	Satteldorf Burles Car
Geographical location	49 ° 10 '34.2 "  N , 10 ° 3' 49.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '34.2 "  N , 10 ° 3' 49.7"  E
Height:	428  m above sea level NN

The Burleswagen Castle , one of the oldest medieval castles ( Spur castle ) of the region, situated on a promontory above the Jagsttal in Weiler Burleswagen the municipality Satteldorf in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in the northeastern Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Geographical location

The castle stands at an altitude of 428  m above sea level. NN on the "Neidenfels", the north-western mouth spur between the river and the "Neidenfelser Klinge " called steep gorge, through which from the east the Entenbach flows into the Jagst almost at right angles . It flows about 50 meters below next to the Talweiler Neidenfels in the downward mouth angle. The castle and both small towns are about 1.6 kilometers west-northwest of the center of the eponymous village of the municipality.

history

Coat of arms of the Lords of Burleswagen after Gustav Adelbert Seyler

Today's castle consists essentially of a castle , which is believed to have originated in the Staufer period. It was probably built in the second half of the 11th century, as the first documentary mention from 1085 of an Ulrich and a Diemar de Burlougesuac , a presumably noble family, suggests. The castle itself was first mentioned in 1323, when King Ludwig the Bavarian gave it to Werner von Burleswagen as an imperial fief .

After the builders died out, the owners changed countless times, including the Knights of Üxküll-Gyllenband , who originally came from the Bremen area and had possessions in Sweden, the Baltic States and later also in Baden and Württemberg, temporarily owned the facility.

The castle and later manor was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and then rebuilt. It has been privately owned by the Thorban family since 1923.

literature

• Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 186-189.

Web links

• Castle Burleswagen at "Sights" on the community website Satteldorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory , p. 187ff.
2. ^ Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory , p. 188ff.
3. ^ Family Thorban ( Memento from December 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Südwest Presse from August 18, 2011