Wild snow castle
| Wild snow castle | ||
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 Northwest side of the castle site |
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| Alternative name (s): | nuwe unde wild Snevspurg | |
| Creation time : | 1250 to 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone masonry | |
| Place: | Oberried -St. Wilhelm | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 54 '38 " N , 7 ° 56' 21" E | |
| Height: | 860 m above sea level NN | |
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The Wild Snow Castle is an Outbound Spur castle near the village of Oberried in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
On the eastern side of the Brugga valley , halfway between Oberried and St. Wilhelm, is the site of the former Wild Snow Castle. The elongated, three-headed castle rock rises about 300 meters ( 860 m above sea level ) above the Schneeberger Hof on the western slope of the Hochfahrns, in the immediate vicinity of the climbing rocks of the Gfallmatte.
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1302 as "nuwe unde wilde Snevspurg". Based on ceramic finds, it is believed that they were made in the second half of the 13th century. Its builders and namesake are believed to be the Schnewlin , one of the most respected and wealthy families in Freiburg in the 13th century . After the sale to the brothers Heinrich and Wilhelm Kolman , knights and citizens of Freiburg, the castle was expanded further. Disputes between the city of Freiburg and the Kolmans, presumably in connection with the manufacture and trade of charcoal, escalated in early autumn 1314 when the castle was destroyed by a Freiburg contingent. The system was not restored afterwards.
description
No visible wall remains of the former castle complex have been preserved. Piles of quarry stone masonry as well as numerous reading ceramic finds, fragments of roof tiles and floor tiles as well as sections of sandstone window reveals suggest a permanent residential tower in the area of the front rock head and testify to the location as a former castle complex. The flattened middle rock head and a leveling between the front and middle rock head indicate the location of further buildings. On the mountain side, a partially buried neck ditch cuts through the narrow rock ridge. Its plateau-shaped end adjoining it to the southeast could have supported a bailey .
gallery
Reconstruction sketch from 1933
Parts of sandstone walls
Neck ditch
Floor brick finds
Reading pottery finds
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6, Tübingen 1904, p. 319 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
- Alfons Zettler , Thomas Zotz (Hrsg.): The castles in the medieval Breisgau, I. Northern part: Half volume LZ . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7995-7365-8 , pp. 370–376.
- Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now. Castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and adjacent areas, Volume 2. Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1987, ISBN 3-87799-075-4 , pp. 58-61.
- Roland Weis: Castles in the Black Forest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1368-5 , pp. 134-139.
Web links
- Entry on Wilde Schneeburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun