Vollenburg

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Vollburg (Vollberg) is a Won in Kleinkems, in the municipality of Efringen-churches in the district Lörrach ( Baden-Württemberg ). Due to misinterpretations, it was long assumed that there was a castle here in the Middle Ages , which was known as the Vollenburg.

history

On September 3, 1301, Abbot Berthold II of St. Blasien ceded part of the Vollenberg mountain to the Basel Bishop Peter von Aspelt . The abbot had the bishop assure him that a castle would never be built on the transferred land. Later chroniclers presumably derived from this document that there was a castle on the Gewann. In more recent treatises one comes to completely different conclusions: "When checking the original sources, however, there are no indications that the castle even existed."

The area was exploited as a limestone quarry, with an old mine tunnel being exposed around 1966, which was probably used for medieval to modern stone ore mining .

legend

According to a legend, the Vollenburg was a robber knight's castle that served as the basis for robbing travelers in the Rhine Valley. After an Italian bishop was attacked on his journey from Basel to Breisach , the people of Basel destroyed the Vollenburg. The robber baron escaped because he misled the pursuers about his escape route by inverted horseshoes.

literature

  • Martin Strotz: Kleinkems (Efringen-Kirchen, LÖ). In: Alfons Zettler, Thomas Zotz : The castles in medieval Breisgau, II. Southern part: half volume AK . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-7366-5 , pp. 409-411.
  • Winfried Zwernemann: An underground tunnel and passage at the "Vollenburg" in the district of Kleinkems. In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 39 (1977), pp. 311-315 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Joseph Trouillat (editor): Monuments de l'histoire de l'ancien évêché de Bâle. Volume 3, Porrentruy (1858), No. 15, pp. 18-20 online in the Google book search
  2. ↑ s. Christian Wurstisen : Baßler Chronick , first volume, Emanuel Thurneysen 1765, p. 62 online in the Google book search
  3. ↑ s. Strotz p. 409
  4. ↑ s. Zwernemann p. 314
  5. ↑ s. Zwernemann p. 312