Loerrach Castle

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Loerrach Castle
Alternative name (s): Loerrach Castle
Creation time : about 1200
Castle type : Moated castle
Conservation status: departed
Standing position : Nobleman
Place: Loerrach
Geographical location 47 ° 36 '37.8 "  N , 7 ° 39' 34.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '37.8 "  N , 7 ° 39' 34.9"  E
Height: 294  m above sea level NN
Loerrach Castle (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Loerrach Castle

The Lörrach Castle , also Lörracher Burg called, is an Outbound Wasserburg in the core city of the South Baden town of Loerrach in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

The castle was probably created through the expansion of a dinghy by the Lords of Rötteln at the beginning of the 13th century. The Lords of Lörrach, first mentioned in a document in 1238, named themselves after her. These were probably ministerials of the Lords of Rötteln, who were knighted and who held the castle as a fief until the 14th century. After that, the moated castle was administered by the bailiffs of the Margraves of Hachberg-Sausenberg until it came to the Lords of Wegenstetten as a fief in 1430. In 1451 the margravial bailiff Hans von Flachslanden was enfeoffed with it. Later fiefs were taken by the lords of Gebweiler and von Offenburg .

The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War at the end of 1638 and was never rebuilt.

However, in 1695 there were plans to build a princely country house in the area around Lörrach Castle, from which the margravate could have been ruled. These plans were never realized and instead the margrave began building the Markgräflerhof in Basel in 1698 .

In 1867 the remains were demolished in view of the growing city. The castle itself was located behind today's town church and near the Meyerhof. The former castle gives its name to the Lörrach cultural center Burghof Lörrach .

investment

The castle complex consisted of a residential building with a stair tower. The courtyard was surrounded by a wall with a corner turret. This facility was surrounded by a ditch, which was probably filled with water.

literature

  • Andre Gutmann: The castles of the Lords of Röteln, their side line of Rotenberg and their ministeriality. In: Ralf Wagner et al. (Editor), State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg (Editor): Burg Rötteln: Rule between Basel and France . JS Klotz publishing house. Neulingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-948424-60-2 , pp. 29-41; here pp. 35–37
  • Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z - Burgenlexikon der Regio . Published by the Castle Friends of both Basels on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. Klingental printing works, Basel 1981, p. 22
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch : von Loerach. In: Upper Baden gender book, Heidelberg 1898, Volume 2, pp. 527/528 online
  • Markus Möhring: The courtyard. History on a new concept. In: Lörrach 1998. Lörracher yearbook with chronicle from October 1, 1997 to September 30, 1998. pp. 102–107 (on p. 103 there is a drawing by Karl Poltier with a reconstruction of the castle)
  • Arnold Pfister: Lörracher Bauten , Lörrach 1939, pp. 262–269
  • Karl Herbster : The Loerrach Castle. In: Karl Herbster: Lörracher historical memories. Pp. 59–61 in the Internet Archive
  • Gerhard Moehring : Brief history of the city of Lörrach , Karlsruhe, 2016, p. 35

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg (LeoBW): Lörrach - Altgemeinde ~ sub-town - Historical local dictionary Baden-Württemberg
  2. ↑ see Moehring p. 34
  3. ↑ Hansmartin Schwarzmaier : Lörrach in the Middle Ages in: Otto Wittmann, Berthold Hänelet, City of Lörrach (ed.): Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture. Issued in memory of the privilege granted 300 years ago on November 18, 1682. City of Lörrach, Lörrach 1983, ISBN 3-9800841-0-8 , pp. 126–129
  4. ↑ see Gerhard Moehring p. 35
  5. ↑ on the Offenburg see Julius Kindler von Knobloch , Badische Historische Kommission (ed.): Oberbadisches Geschlechtbuch , Volume 3 (M - R), Heidelberg, 1919, pp. 267–273 digitized
  6. ↑ see Herbster p. 59
  7. ^ Gerhard Moehring: Brief history of the city of Lörrach (= regional history - well-founded and compact). Karlsruhe 2016, ISBN 978-3-7650-1417-8 , p. 34; here is this map, which is in color in the Dreiländermuseum, also printed in black and white.
  8. ↑ Loerrach Castle. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  9. ↑ s. Markus Möhring p. 103