Tannenburg (Bühlertann)

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Tannenburg
View of the Tannenburg from the north

View of the Tannenburg from the north

Alternative name (s): Tannenburg Castle
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg in spur location
Conservation status: Receive
Standing position : Nobles, clericals, commoners
Construction: Hunchback cuboid, half-timbered
Place: Bühlertann -Tannenburg-Halden
Geographical location 49 ° 1 '49.9 "  N , 9 ° 55' 26.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '49.9 "  N , 9 ° 55' 26.2"  E
Height: 485.7  m above sea level NN
Tannenburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Tannenburg

The Tannenburg , also called Tannenburg Castle , is a spur castle above the Bühlertal in the municipality of Bühlertann in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The Tannenburg is about one and a half kilometers southeast of the center of the eponymous capital of the municipality. The at a height of 485.7  m above sea level. NN standing on the west spur Tannenberg of the Ellwanger Mountains rises prominently about 110 meters above the wide basin of the Bühler valley , which flows past about one kilometer to the west on the north run. The terrain drops in the direction of the spur and to the south, initially steeply by about 40 meters to a middle terrain platform, on which the Bühlertanner hamlet Halden lies just 100 meters to the south of the castle. About 700–800 meters from the castle, this step drops steeper in the west to the Bühlertal and in the south to the valley of the Avenbach river . The northern side of the spur is also steep at the beginning, but then gradually flattens out into the basin of the Bühler tributary Dammbach , which is also on the right , which is only about 600 meters away and whose part of the name Damm- arose from Tann through corruption . In the east, the spur sets in the hamlet of Fronrot, just over 2 km away, at a maximum of 496  m above sea level. NN on the wide plateau of the Ellwanger Mountains, its width, which is still about half a kilometer there, decreases noticeably towards the west and already reaches about 300 meters in front of the 4 meter thick shield wall no more than a hundred meters.

description

The Tannenburg is one of the best preserved shield wall castles in Württemberg. The late Staufen castle has three neck trenches one behind the other, a powerful walk-shield wall and a passage gate ( Torbau ) on the attack side, a large courtyard and a Palas with Rittersaal over a trapezoidal ground plan. The walls show humpback blocks , on the south side the half-timbered structures of the palace rise above them .

Natural monument of the summer linden tree on the Tannenburg

A summer linden tree, categorized as a natural monument (ID = 81270120001), grows in the courtyard .

Castle chapel of St. Maria Magdalena

The castle complex has an approximately 15 × 10 meter chapel dedicated to St. Magdalena , it is located near the southwest corner of the cattle yard that forms the outer bailey. The foundation walls of the building date from the 13th century, first mentioned in 1632, the bell bears the year 1649. Architecturally, it shows a mixture of Gothic and Renaissance elements , the exact time of construction is not known. The chapel had its own chaplaincy until 1803 . After 1891 it passed from the ownership of the priesthood of Ellwangen to the Bühlertann church administration. It is still occasionally used today for church services, such as weddings.


  • Ausen shield wall

  • Shield wall interior view

  • Inner castle gate
    to the castle courtyard

  • Sommerlinde natural monument

  • Castle chapel St. Magdalena

history

The castle was probably built in the 11th to 12th centuries by the Ellwangen Abbey and was mentioned in 1223 as the Ellwang border fortress with the von Tannenburg family. From 1230 to 1240 the castle was expanded, destroyed at the end of the 14th century and rebuilt in 1398. Further expanded in the 16th century and 1822. In 1931 Ernst Zipperer senior acquired the castle, which has been owned by the Zipperer family ever since.

use

The Tannenburg now serves as a school camp, school farm, organic farm and offers a wide range of leisure activities. In addition to fields on the spur plateau to the east, the farm also includes extensive areas on the steep slopes, some of which are former orchards, which are mostly used for grazing and are kept almost free of forest.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 49-53.
  • Wilhelm Gradmann: Castles and palaces in Hohenlohe . Stuttgart 1982.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , pp. 598-599.

Web links

Commons : Tannenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings B 384: Holy Invoices