Weilerburg (Tailfingen)

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Hamlet castle
Hamlet castle

Hamlet castle

Alternative name (s): Weilersburg
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Remnants of the wall, wall, ditch
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Albstadt - Tailfingen
Geographical location 48 ° 16 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Height: 850  m above sea level NN
Weilerburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Hamlet castle

The hamlet castle , also called hamlet castle, is the remainder of a spur castle on the western edge of the hamlet valley at 850  m above sea level. NN about 3.25 kilometers northeast of the Peterskirche of Tailfingen , a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built around 1100 by the lords of Weilersburg and was first mentioned in 1113. In 1350 there were documents about Heinrich von Weilersburg, his wife Elsbeth von Digisheim and his son Burkhard von Weilesburg. Heinrich the old von Weilersburg and his wife Katharina von Wildenegg are also mentioned. 1393 Wildmann von Weilersburg is mentioned as a canon. In 1387, a “Herr Widmann von Weilersburg” is mentioned in a Stuttgart document from “Sant Martinsabend”. Elsewhere he is mentioned as Pfaff Widmann von Weilerburgs, Chorister zu Stuttgart and Kirchherr zu Hechingen . The mill belonging to the castle was mentioned in 1445 as "Wilermülin". The village “Wiler” belonging to the castle is not today's hamlet “Neuweiler”, but a lost village. With his property, Wildmann von Weilersburg donated a measuring pound in the Ebingen Kapellkirche.

description

Weilertal fountain

The former castle complex was a small complex on a rock spur above the valley, on an area of ​​around 60 by 16 meters with a pentagonal residential tower in the core castle , of which only small remains of walls, a moat and a rampart have been preserved. From the archaeological point of view, it is assumed that a prehistoric complex, i.e. a refuge , existed before the medieval castle . A spacious wall-ditch system, dating from prehistoric times, separates the mountain corner from the plateau. The medieval buildings follow within the enclosed area . A narrow, shallow ditch, a small wall and a deeper, wide ditch run in an arch to the tip of the spur. In the protection of this multi-part barrier and the steep mountain slopes, a stone building stood on the Spornspitze, probably the residential tower with a side length of 8 by 9 meters. Apart from clear walls of rubble, only a few worked stone blocks of medium size are left of it. The extensive finds point to the late Bronze Age for the prehistoric complex and to an epoch between 1100 and the 14th century for the medieval castle. Metal parts, such as annealed nails, weapons and armor, were found that indicate a conflagration. Today the castle complex is very overgrown and overgrown with brush and trees. You can only walk sensibly in spring, late autumn or winter, otherwise it is too overgrown. Below the castle hill, on the road from Hausen to Neuweiler, there is the Weilertal fountain at an alternative point, which was probably part of the castle complex or the associated mill.

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literature

  • Hermann Bizer: Tailfinger Heimatbuch. Second unchanged edition. Self-published by the family of the late Dr. Hermann Bizer, Albstadt 1987.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 69-70.
  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 191–194.
  • Karl-Hermann Kauffmann: Wonderful hiking trails in and around Albstadt . Eigen-Verlag, Albstadt 2005.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 179-181.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office. Jan Thorbecke Publishing House. Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 81-84.