Ehingen Castle
The Ehingen City Palace was the residence of the Counts of Berg-Schelklingen and later the pledges and governors of the dominions of Ehingen, Schelklingen and Berg in the town of Ehingen (Danube) in the Alb-Danube district in Baden-Württemberg .
location
The castle was located in the northeast of the old town on the city wall on the hill above the Groggental and the Schmiech. Today the area is built over by the College of Benedictines.
history
The Ehingen city palace was probably built by the Counts of Berg-Schelklingen, who emerged from the Berg rule , as the founder of the city of Ehingen and owner of the Ehingen, Schelklingen and Berg dominions, and used as a city residence. After the counts of Berg died out in 1346, it was used as an apartment by the respective pledges. Konrad von Bemelberg the Younger had building repairs carried out as a pledgee in 1568/69, a list of which is still available in the Tyrol State Archives. This includes the following rooms: the mansion, the kitchen, the lower chamber in front of the dining room, the imperial room, the writing room, the man’s chamber, the woman’s room, the secret room, the dining room, the junkhous’s chamber, the bathing room, the courtyard , the gatehouse, the baking house, the fountain, the new gate, the lower vault, and other things. Accordingly, the castle must have had a considerable size and equipment.
During the Thirty Years War , the Ehingen City Palace is said to have not been used and structurally neglected. The Zwiefalten Monastery acquired the castle and its land in 1692 for 4,500 guilders . The castle must have been closed by 1698 at the latest, as the construction of the college began in that year, today known as Konvikt .
literature
- Franz Michael Weber: Ehingen: History of an Upper Swabian Danube City . Ehingen: Max Fischer, 1955 (2nd edition 1980), p. 222f.
See also
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 6.1 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 40.2 ″ E