Reussenstein Castle
View from the valley to the ruins Reußenstein
The ruin Reußenstein is the ruin of a rocky hill above Neidlingen in the district of Esslingen in Baden- Württemberg. Today, the Reußenstein is a popular destination for climbers and hikers and is one of the most visited castles in the Alb. The ruin Reußenstein was appointed by the Memorial Foundation of Baden-Württemberg to the " Monument of the Month December 2012".
Geographical location
The ruin is situated at an altitude of 760 meters above sea level. On a Felsriff on Albtrauf located, it offers a beautiful view of the valley Neidlinger.
History
The castle was built around 1270 as Ministerialburg the reign Teck to control the single Albaufstieg from the Neidlinger valley up to the late Middle Ages.
Knight Diethoh of Kirchheim - stone was since about 1301, the first lord of the castle. His son sold it to his cousins , Konrad and Heinrich Reuss.
The castle was first mentioned in 1371 Reußenstein. Over the next 50 years, the castle went to eleven owners. 1381 also to the Württemberg. 1441 came the counts of Helfenstein in possession of the castle. The last of them, who lived at the castle, was Ludwig Helferich of Reußenstein.
With the extinction of the Helfensteiner from 1550, the castle was uninhabited and began to fall apart. 1752 was the Reußenstein property of the Bavarian Court Chamber. 1806 was Württemberg State domain. 1835 gave the king of Württemberg, the castle his aide Colonel of Fleischmann. 1846 was shot in the ruins of the supposedly penultimate lynx in Germany.
In March 1862 bought the Exchequer (then Hofdomänenkammer ) the castle ruins and the associated large estate of Major-General von Fleischmann 73,000 guilders. On 4 October 1888, the Hofdomänenkammer auctioned at a foreclosure sale the proportion of Nicholas Aierle on Ziegelhofstraße, which borders on the domain Reußenstein to 18,000 guilders. A little later the acquisition of the remaining property of Julius Aierle followed by 18500 guilders. The Ziegelhofstraße was usually leased together with the domain Reußenstein.
The following tenants farmed the goods:
- John Eberhardt, Mehrstetten, Oberamt Münsingen (1862-1877)
- Wilhelm Rall, Jacob's son, Dettingen unter Teck (1877-1901)
- Wilhelm Rall ( Ziegelhofstraße ) ( 1901-1904 )
- Wilhelm Rall jun. ( Ziegelhofstraße ) ( 1904-1915 )
- Frederick Kober, Pfullingen (1901-1915)
- Frederick Kober Kober and Jacob (1915-1925)
- Jacob Kober ( Ziegelhofstraße ) ( 1925-1937 )
- Jacob Schilling, Böhringen (1925-1950)
In 1928 we set up a water line to a pumping station. In the course of the land reform, the domains Reußenstein and Ziegelhofstraße 1950 were expropriated. On October 5, 1964, the sale of the ruins Reußenstein to the circle Nürtingen was. In the years 1965/66 of Reußenstein was renovated by the county Nürtingen (now the district of Esslingen ) and the Swabian Albverein under the supervision of Württemberg Monuments Office.
On 13 June 2010, a motor glider is collided and crashed against a wall dive at the castle ruins. Two people were killed.
Description
The spaetstaufische castle had a main, advantages and lower castle, an approximately 19-meter- high keep with 2 meter thick walls in an area of 5.66 times 5.95 meters with north -mounted extension with pitched roof, a palace with shield wall -like, high front wall and a chapel in the castle courtyard. The shield wall was 14 meters high and 2 meters thick.
Legend of Wilhelm Hauff
After written by Wilhelm Hauff Sage was the giant home of the Home Stone, who had lived until then in the rock cave in the same sponge prongs on the opposite side of the valley, built the castle on the Reußenstein. To get to the Reußensteinfelsen, he first had to pass through the valley with a large step, but it came too short and got stuck with one foot in the marshy valley floor. When he pulled it out again, sprang from the Fußstapfenloch a source, which he had casually created the Lindachstraße. Last lacked the almost finished castle or a nail. None of the craftsmen who dared However, these pursue a dizzy height. Then came a young fellow from the Neidlinger Valley who wanted to dare. The giant gave the young man with his mighty fist out the window over the abyss, until he had finished his work. As a reward he got wealth and the daughter of the master's wife.
Gallery
View from one of the courtyards
In the ruins
Stairs to the ruins
View of the ruins ( with climbers )
View into the valley Neidlinger
Ruin Reußenstein, drawn by Margret Hofheinz - Döring, 1978