Neusteusslingen Castle
Neusteusslingen Castle in the Alb-Danube district stood on a spur above the Schmiechtal , formerly belonged to Ennahofen in the Lutheran Mountains , but was assigned to the community of Hütten together with Talsteusslingen and Teuringshofen at the beginning of the 1970s and incorporated into Schelklingen .
history
The history of Neusteusslingen Castle goes back to the 12th century. Built as a castle around 1200, Duke Ludwig von Württemberg had the old Steusslinger castle partially demolished in 1581 and Neusteusslingen Castle built in 1582 at the same location, but a little further south . This was a purely administrative building with no military function for the Steusslingen rule . The castle was sold for demolition in 1812 and remained in ruins until the late 19th century. In 1897 the publisher Eugen Nübling from Ulm a. D. On the ruins of the previous castle from the late 16th century and the old castle, a castle-like country estate with a farm and settled there permanently.
Neusteusslingen Castle was under the barons of Freyberg-Steusslingen until the death of the last representative of this line, Hans Pankraz von Freyberg in 1581, the center of the Steusslingen rule. After the settled fiefdom moved in, Württemberg formed the Steusslingen office from the Steusslingen rulership, with the newly built Neusteusslingen Castle as the administrative seat.
The following places belonged to the Steusslingen rule and the Steusslingen office: Neusteusslingen Castle, Weilersteusslingen , Grötzingen , Ermelau , Ennahofen , Talsteusslingen, Teuringshofen and Sondernach. The Reformation was introduced in the Steusslingen office, which is why this area was called the Lutheran Mountains .
Neusteusslingen Castle is privately owned and cannot be visited.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 2 - Alb Middle-South: Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 89-96.
- Alexander Antonow: Castles of southwest Germany in the 13th and 14th centuries - with special consideration of the shield wall . Konkordia Verlag, Bühl / Baden 1977, ISBN 3-7826-0040-1 , pp. 233-234.
See also
Web links
- "Ruin Steußlingen and Talsteußlingen from Hütten", drawn by Ludwig Kolb in 1829. In the foreground the medieval castle, behind it the castle from 1581 [1]
- "Ruine Steußlingen" from the east, drawn by Ludwig Kolb in 1829. Left the castle from 1581, right the medieval castle [2]
- Internet presence of the city of Schelklingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '55 " N , 9 ° 39' 17.7" E