Leinroden tower hill castle

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Leinroden tower hill castle
Leinroden tower hill castle seen from the north

Leinroden tower hill castle seen from the north

Alternative name (s): Roden Castle, castle tower
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Hunchback cuboid, sandstone, half-timbered houses
Place: Abtsgmünd - Leinroden
Geographical location 48 ° 52 '39.7 "  N , 9 ° 59' 39.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '39.7 "  N , 9 ° 59' 39.5"  E
Height: 394  m above sea level NHN
Tower castle Leinroden (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Leinroden tower hill castle

The tower hill castle Leinroden , also called Burg Roden or Schlossturm , is a hilltop castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) at 394  m above sea level. NHN south of Leinroden , part of the municipality Abtsgmünd , hidden in the forest on a castle hill on the slope of the Leintal in the Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built in the 12th century. In 1147 an Odalrich de Roden was first mentioned as the owner. Further owners were the von Pfahlheim family in 1354, the von Zipplingen family in 1369, the von Rechberg family in 1377, the von Woellwarth family in 1409 , the Baron von Uechtritz in 1815, and Dr. Walter Schuster and in 1933 Mrs. Gertrud Weise-Andreae.

The current owners extensively renovated the tower in 1984/85 and kept it in its original state as much as possible. The careful renovation was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Prize in 1986 .

investment

The tower hill castle was built on an artificially heaped hill with a height of 15 to 20 meters in front of the mountainside, possibly initially with a wooden residential tower. A stream flowing into the Lein served as a water dispenser and as an eastern flank protection.

The Romanesque stone tower was built around 1200. Humpback blocks testify to a building from the Staufer period . The tower has a height of 20 meters and a base area of ​​8.5 × 8.5 meters. The original entrance was on the east side at a height of about 6 meters and is now provided with a barred window. Around 1500 living rooms were built on the plastered floor. At that time, a Gothic staircase to the living rooms was built inside . The half-timbered structure comes from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century. The current entrance on the north side of the tower was created more recently and was broken into the cellar of the tower.

Originally the facility was surrounded by a wall. In the 19th century, there is evidence of ancillary buildings on the tower site. On the moth side facing the Leintal, the cellar of one of the disappeared outbuildings has been preserved. The moat is preserved.

The tower castle, which today, apart from the disappeared wall, looks like it did when it was built, is considered an outstanding testimony to medieval secular architecture and at the same time one of the best-preserved stone residential towers from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century in Baden-Württemberg.

photos

  • Coat of arms of the Lords of Roden

  • View from the southwest

  • View from the southeast

  • North wall with today's entrance

  • East wall with the original entrance at a height of 6 meters (barred today)

literature

Web links

Commons : Turmhügelburg Leinroden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Information board for the Abtsgmünd community at the entrance to the castle complex.
  2. ↑ Konrad A. Theiss: Art and cultural monuments in the Ostalb district , Aalen 2000, p. 65.
  3. ↑ Turmhügelburg in Leinroden on ostalbkreis.de. Retrieved April 12, 2020.