Suhlburg

Suhlburg Castle
	Coat of arms of the Senft von Suhlburg, around 1605, from Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book
Alternative name (s):	Sulburg
Creation time :	around 1400
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Untermünkheim -Suhlburg
Geographical location	49 ° 8 '40.6 " N , 9 ° 43' 5.5" E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '40.6 " N , 9 ° 43' 5.5" E
Height:	322.4 m above sea level NHN

The Suhlburg , also called Sulburg , is an abandoned hilltop castle at 322.4 m above sea level. NHN on a left spur above the lower Schmiedbachtal near the hamlet of Suhlburg in the municipality of Untermünkheim in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was probably built at the end of the 14th century by a councilor and members of a leading patrician dynasty from Schwäbisch Hall called Sulmeister , mentioned in 1430, and remained in the possession of his knightly aristocratic descendants, who named themselves after the castle Senft von Sulburg . These were enrolled in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle and through the acquisition of Matzenbach in 1524, also in the canton Kocher with the Swabian knight circle .

The plant burned down in 1534 and an attempted reconstruction in 1622 failed. Only remains of the foundations and moats remain from the former castle complex, where there is now a residential building.

literature

Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 256-257.
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 Sulburg in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 10, 2019.

Individual evidence

^ Sulmeister = Saline master. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 20 : Strom – Szische - (X, 4th section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1942 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
^ Description of the Oberamt Hall from . 1847, History of the City of Hall; official titles become family names p. 144–145 and p. 151 ( Wikisource )
↑ The Suhlburg on leo-bw

[1] Sulmeister = Saline master. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 20 : Strom – Szische - (X, 4th section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1942 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

[2] Description of the Oberamt Hall from . 1847, History of the City of Hall; official titles become family names p. 144–145 and p. 151 ( Wikisource )

[3] The Suhlburg on leo-bw