Gutenstein Castle

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View from the west of Gutenstein Castle

The Gutenstein Castle is a castle complex on the Danube above the town of the same name Gutenstein in the district of Sigmaringen ( Baden-Württemberg ).

The building has a T-shaped floor plan with three gables and is a three-story plastered limestone building in a spur position . The complex is surrounded by a rectangular castle wall, and a free-standing round tower is located on the north wall. A now buried shaft, which was probably used for water supply and for other purposes in times of war, led through the castle rock to the Danube.

history

Gutenstein Castle in the Upper Danube Valley, pencil drawing by General Eduard von Kallee around 1850
North elevation
Gutenstein Castle, postcard ca.1900

Gutenstein Castle was probably built in the 16th century (documented from 1626) and rebuilt at the beginning of the 18th century in the classical style by Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell , the so-called "Malefizschenk". In 1834 it was sold to Ludwig von Langenstein, a son of the Grand Duke Ludwig I of Baden, due to financial difficulties . In 1872 it was inherited by the Counts of Douglas .

An Obervogteiamt was established in the castle as an administrative center for the villages of Gutenstein, Engelswies , Ablach and Altheim , which were combined to form the "Herrschaft Gutenstein". The Gutensteiner Obervogteiamt existed until the transfer of rule to Baden in the wake of the Pressburg Peace in 1806.

The castle is not accessible. In 1978 the dilapidated property was sold by the Douglas house to Manfred Klietmann. At the end of 2005 he sold the renovated and restored castle with around 700 m² of living space and a plot of 12,000 m² to a private person from Reutlingen.

literature

  • Edwin Ernst Weber: Between ore house, pawnbrokers and feudal lords. The Upper Austrian rule of Gutenstein . In: Andreas Zekorn et al. (Ed.): Front Austria on the Upper Neckar and Upper Danube . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2002, ISBN 3-89669-966-0 , pp. 181–202.
  • Günter Schmitt : Gutenstein . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 109–114.
  • Gerd Dörr: Swabian Alb - castles, palaces, ruins . HB-Verlags-und-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-616-06727-8 .
  • Alfons Kasper: Art walks all over the Danube, Volume 3 . 2. revised Edition, Verlag Dr. Alfons Kasper, Bad Schussenried 1985, pp. 40-43.
  • Franz Götz and Alois Beck: Langenstein Castle and Lordship in Hegau . Published on behalf of Count Wilhelm Douglas-Langenstein in conjunction with the Association for History of Hegaus eV - Singen / Htwl .: Hegau Library Volume 22, 1972. (In it on the history of the lords under IX rule that were united with Langenstein in the 19th century Gutenstein; pp. 273–274.)

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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 40.5 ″  E