Tiefburg (Handschuhsheim)
| Tiefburg | ||
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 West side of the Tiefburg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Handschuhsheim Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1300 to 1400 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 25 ′ 41.5 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 10" E | |
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The Tiefburg , also called Burg Handschuhsheim , is the ruin of a medieval moated castle in the Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim in northwestern Baden-Württemberg .
location
The castle is a deep castle northwest of the former village center of Handschuhsheim . The castle was once surrounded by a moat fed by the Mühlbach . The walled inflow to the moat is still visible at the northeast corner of the complex. After being drained, the connecting canal was used to access the neighboring estate. The walling of the entire complex has been preserved fragmentarily in the surrounding property.
history
The oldest manor in Handschuhsheim was probably on a western ledge of the Heiligenberg in the Gewann Bürgel . According to ancient traditions, there were once the vaults and walls of a castle there. Whether this castle even existed and when it was abandoned is just as little known as the origin of the Tiefburg. The latter, however, existed in the 13th century at the latest. Tradition from the 13th and 14th centuries shows that it was a moated castle, surrounded by a 12 meter wide moat, fed by the Mühlbach.
The quarter of the defensive walls as well as the barrel vaults of the cellars date back to the high Middle Ages, while the rest of the entire complex shows features of the Renaissance, which suggests a major reconstruction of the castle between 1500 and 1600. The coats of arms from 1544 visible on the balustrades of the outer walls date this renovation more closely.
The castle was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Handschuhsheim . After these had died out in the male line in 1600, the castle went to the Lords of Helmstatt in 1624, who owned the castle for more than three centuries.
From the Thirty Years War to the War of the Palatinate Succession , the castle suffered from the wars of the 17th century. In 1642 the castle was set on fire several times, in 1674 it was destroyed and uninhabitable. Georg Adam Christoph von Helmstatt (1676–1741) had the Freiadlige Herrengut built next to the ruins around 1700 on the site of the dilapidated manor house of the former local rule. The manor was once part of the entire castle complex and was maintained in the future, while the ruinous inner castle was only poorly maintained.
From 1911 to 1913 the Tiefburg was renovated by the owner, Raban Graf von Helmstatt (1844–1932) and the residential building made usable again. It was rented to various citizens of Handschuhsheim for some time before a youth hostel was established in it in 1921 . In 1950 Raban's son Bleickard von Helmstatt (1871–1952) sold the castle to the city of Heidelberg, which handed the property over to the Handschuhsheim district association. The youth hostel operation ended in 1951 and the castle has been used for events ever since.
The walled knight
In 1770, the then owner of the Tiefburg, Johann Ferdinand Joseph Freiherr von Helmstatt, discovered a walled-in skeleton in medieval armor in a cavity behind a wall. There are several legends about this "walled-in knight". One of them says that the man who was walled in was said to have had a relationship with a resident of Hirschhorn Castle and was walled up alive as a punishment for this.
The armor is said to have come as a gift to General von Rothenhausen from the Electorate of the Palatinate and later came to the royal antiquity collection in Munich via Elector Carl Theodor. The armor is now lost. A replica donated by the district association has adorned the site since 1977.
investment
You can still enter the castle today via a bridge that spans a twelve meter wide filled ditch. From the main castle only the foundation walls, the vaults of the residential tower and the defensive walls are preserved. Around 1700 a new mansion with stables and barns was built. It was not until 1911 to 1913 that the owner at the time, Count Raban von Helmstatt, had the “Ritterhaus” residential building in the inner courtyard rebuilt and expanded.
Main entrance
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View from the east
Rear view
Summer catering
Back corner
West side
Back with the memorial to the dead in the wars of 1914–1918 and 1939–1945
Aerial view of the Tiefburg in September 2018
Todays use
In addition to event rooms for local associations, the restored residential building also houses the office and the local historical archive of the Handschuhsheim district association. Numerous local events take place in the castle courtyard.
Literary precipitation
The castle is the focus of Walter Laufenberg's historical novel "Knight, Death and the Devil", which was published in 1992 by Langen Müller in Munich.
literature
- Hans Heiberger: The deep castle in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim , Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei GmbH 1981, ISBN 3-920431-07-3
- Hans Heiberger: Handschuhsheim. Chronicle of a Heidelberg district. , Heidelberg 1985
- Eugen Holl and Hans Heiberger: The Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim and the Freiadlige Gut , in: District Association Handschuhsheim (ed.): Yearbook 2011 , Heidelberg 2011, pp. 11-13.
- Thomas F. Mertel: The restoration of the Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim 1911–1913 , in: District Association Handschuhsheim (ed.): Yearbook 2013 , Heidelberg 2013, pp. 9–23.
Web links
- Handschuhsheim Castle at burgen-web.de
- Handschuhsheim Castle at burgenwelt.de
- The Tiefburg on the side of the district association Handschuhsheim eV
