Wildenstein Castle Hahnenkamm
| Wildenstein Castle Hahnenkamm | ||
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 Main castle from the southeast |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1150 | |
| Castle type : | High castle, rocky location, valley slope | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Free nobles | |
| Construction: | Small cuboid | |
| Place: | Leibertingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 3 '9 " N , 8 ° 59' 52" E | |
| Height: | 730 m above sea level NN | |
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The Wildensteiner Burg Hahnenkamm is the high medieval ruin of a hilltop castle belonging to free aristocracy north of the municipality of Leibertingen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Sigmaringen in Germany .
The rock castle is the southernmost of the four castle ruins around the Wildenstein fortress . It bears the name because of its location on a cock-comb-shaped rock.
location
The castle is strategically located on the outside of a bend in the Danube river with a cliff that drops 80 m vertically on the valley side, which also rises 20 m on the mountain side and is thus about 730 m above sea level. Presumably a former knight's path crossed here in the Middle Ages.
history
Ceramic finds made it possible to date the castle between 1100 and 1150 and allow the conclusion that Hahnenkamm Castle is also part of the chain of castles created by the Lords of Wildenstein . The Lords of Wildenstein were mentioned for the first time in documents from the Salem Monastery between 1168 and 1174. The Hahnenkamm was given up as a residence as early as the 13th century when the castle fortress was built.
investment
Remains of the front wall of the main building on the ridge of the rock have been preserved from the former facility on the upper level (area: approx. 10 m × 2 m). A steep staircase with the remains of a dry stone wall led up to its southern rock face. A gate gave access to a middle level and the castle. A three-meter-deep, man-high tunnel-like passage runs through the rock here. On the largest, about ten meters long and five meters wide, middle settlement level there was possibly a farm building.
literature
- Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb. DRW, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7
- Günter Schmitt : Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 215–220 (Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 3)
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state by Wolfgang Braun