Burgrest Schomburg

Burgrest Schomburg
Alternative name (s):	Schomburg Castle
Creation time :	Around 1500
Castle type :	Höhenburg, later a castle
Conservation status:	Remains of the foundation
Standing position :	Nobles, counts
Place:	Wangen in the Allgäu Schomburg
Geographical location	47 ° 40 '58.8 " N , 9 ° 45' 35.3" E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 '58.8 " N , 9 ° 45' 35.3" E
Height:	560 m above sea level NHN

Burgrest Schomburg , also called Schomburg Castle , is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 560 m above sea level. NHN high hill above the right bank of the Untere Argen near the Schomburg district of the city of Wangen im Allgäu in the Ravensburg district ( Baden-Württemberg ).

The castle was built around 1500 by Ulrich Siber not far from the sister complex Burg Alt-Schomburg . The castle later came into the possession of the Counts of Montfort , who expanded it in 1754 to resemble a castle. With the rule of Schomburg, the castle complex came to the House of Habsburg in 1779 as part of the bankruptcy proceedings of the Counts of Montfort .

From 1836 the castle was demolished, in 1899 a farm building burned down. Only remains of the foundations of the former castle complex are preserved.

literature

Hans Ulrich Rudolf (eds.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0508-6 , pp. 411-413.
Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .

Web links

Entry on Schomburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

^ Mark Hengerer / Elmar L. Kuhn (eds.): Adel im Wandel. Upper Swabia from the early modern era to the present. Volume 1. Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2006, pp. 213-228.
↑ Hans Ulrich Rudolf (ed.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district , p. 411 ff.

[1] Mark Hengerer / Elmar L. Kuhn (eds.): Adel im Wandel. Upper Swabia from the early modern era to the present. Volume 1. Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2006, pp. 213-228.

[2] Hans Ulrich Rudolf (ed.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district , p. 411 ff.