Ofteringen Castle

Ofteringen Castle
Ofteringen Castle, today Marienburg Monastery
Alternative name (s):	Marienburg Monastery
Creation time :	14.-15. century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Main building preserved
Standing position :	Lords of Ofteringen , Rheinau Abbey
Place:	Wutöschingen
Geographical location	47 ° 40 '42.3 "  N , 8 ° 22' 32.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 '42.3 "  N , 8 ° 22' 32.7"  E
Height:	427  m above sea level NN

The Ofteringen Castle in the Wutöschingen district of Ofteringen in the Waldshut district in the south of Baden-Württemberg is located on a southern hill, in the Wutach valley across from Degernau . It is a stately building, with a stepped gable, in a renovated condition. Today the Marienburg monastery is located here .

history

The Ofteringer are an old noble family, and a knight Gerung von Ofteringen appears as early as 1240 when the place was first mentioned. 1251 a Herr Huc von Ofteringen is mentioned in the course of the Küssenberg legacy.

In 1384 Katharina von Ofteringen was the prioress of the Riedern am Wald convent .

1349 the St. George knight Friedrich von Ofteringen is mentioned in connection with the castle Untermettingen .

In the lesser Laufenburg , the Knights of Ofteringen had Ofteringen Castle as a fief. In 1428 Junker Heinrich von Erzingen bought this castle from Hans von Tüfen along with the people who belonged to it.

In 1523 the guardians of Ludwig Truchsess sold the Ofteringen estate to the noble Junker Hans Ulrich von Ofteringen, known as Gutjahr, mayor of Waldshut .

On December 6, 1678, the widow Margarethe Agathe von Ofteringen - after the testament of her husband Junker Karl von Ofteringen, the last of his family - handed over the entire Ofteringen property to the Rheinau monastery .

Abbot Gerold Zurlauben then had the large barn ( Klosterschüer ) that still exists today rebuilt, and the new castle chapel was built under Abbot Benedikt Ledergerber (1741). The architect Johann Michael Beer von Bildstein is responsible for the construction management .

The two chapel bells bore the inscription: Captain Walther von Roll had me poured in the 1643th year . The bells were melted down for war purposes. Today there are new ones.

The monastery hired a governor who had to supervise the goods from the castle. At times, however, also from Rheinau (1683 to 1862). It was a resting place for the Rheinau monks.

Ownership claims followed by the Counts of Fürstenberg , but in 1810 Rheinau is again fully owned by Ofteringen.

On a sightseeing tour, Sister Josepha (Sabina) Schneider “fell in love” with the castle. After many difficulties, she finally managed to purchase the castle property on November 27, 1860 and founded the Marienburg monastery with her fellow sisters, which is still there today. The new monastery made essential necessary new buildings, which integrate perfectly, only possible.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Knights of Ofteringen in Scheibler's book of arms

The Knights of Ofteringen had their own coat of arms, it shows three crescent moon lying on a red field. This coat of arms was adopted by the later municipality. Relatives were Maria Gertrud von Beck zu Willmendingen († in the women's convent Berau ) and Johann von Beck zu Willmendingen († in the monastery of St. Blasien ), niece and grandson of Johann Jakob von Beck .

The coat of arms of the community of Oftringen in Switzerland is derived from the Ofteringer coat of arms. However, the place Oftering in Austria has a completely different coat of arms.

In Ofteringen, but on the opposite side of the Wutach , the Reuentaler Mühle is now an inn, farm and sawmill owned by the Ofteringer family, who derive from the knights of Ofteringen.

literature

• Ferdinand Hasenfratz , Der Krautbettjäger and other adventurous spider tubs, real forest trampolines and chats from the Wutach Valley. 1984, ISBN 3-925016-00-7
• Wutöschingen - then and now, The reading book: Degernau, Horheim, Ofteringen, Schwerzen, Wutöschingen . Municipality of Wutöschingen (Ed.), Wutöschingen 2006.
• Father Hieronymus Haas (OSB Mariastein ), Marienburg Abbey 1862-1962

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of St. Blasien
2. ^ Certificate in the Rheinau archive
3. ^ Rheinauer and Fürstenberg Archives