Scheuerberg

The Scheuerberg from the southeast; in the foreground Erlenbach

The Scheuerberg at Neckarsulm in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg is a 310.2 m above sea level. NN high elevation of the mountain Sulmer level on which the castle once Scheuerberg was with chapel and is considered mountain town.

Geographical location

The Scheuerberg lies in the west of the mountain Sulmer level, directly east of Neckarsulm, just south of the district Amorbach and just north of Erlenbach. To the west, its landscape falls in the Neckar basin with the Neckar, past its cash flows Sulm in the southwest and the small tributary Hängelbach in the north to the other side of it located Sulm inflow Attichsbach. While the high altitude and the north flank of the mountain is forested, is operated on its southern slope viticulture.

Castle Scheuerberg

A chapel on the Scheuerberg was first mentioned in 1264 IV and V. Engelhard of vineyard in connection with a foundation of Engelhard. In the same document, which governs the rights of the pastor on the Scheuerberg, even a castle on the hill was mentioned, whose construction is dated to the period 1218-1250 - now called Castle Scheuerberg. On the Neckar facing west side of the mountain to the main castle is said to have found, east of which the outer bailey. As a builder of the Lords of the vineyard that had been invested as Treasurer of the Hohenstaufen with the rule Scheuerberg apply. Engelhard VII of Weinberg sold the castle on May 2, 1335 to Archbishop Baldwin of Trier, who at the time was also administrator of the Archdiocese of Mainz and began on the Scheuerberg a kurmainzischen Vogt. On May 7, 1484 Scheuerberg came under German master Reinhard von Neipperg to the German Order. On April 19, 1525, when the castle was burned down during the Peasants' War.

After the Peasants' War the castle on the Scheuerberg was not set repaired. The chapel is said to have still been in good condition, because even in 1529 there were held church services. From the castle were initially the dungeon and extremely massive walls available. Under German champion Walther von Cronberg, who is also the also destroyed Heuchlingen Castle was restored after 1530, existed in the 16th century plans to rebuild the castle on the mountain scrub, but this was rejected. In the following decades and centuries, the stones of the castle to the construction of several large buildings were used, including the Amorbacher court, Neckarsulm parish church and in 1655 the Neckarsulm Capuchin monastery. 1705 ordered a bailiff Stipplin the demolition of the then still standing keep and the leveling of the land for use as a vineyard on, but in 1785 the ruins were still stones excavated for the construction of vineyard walls.

Until the land consolidation 1970-1974 were found with stone marks from the Romanesque period in the vineyards on the Scheuerberg numerous stones. 1974 also a massive stone wall of the former castle was exposed, whose dimension historian has led to the statement that the castle on the Scheuerberg was possibly the most powerful of the numerous medieval castles in the surrounding areas of Heilbronn.

Transport links

West on Scheuerberg passes the SS 27 ( Kochendorf - Neckarsulm -Heilbronn ); it has connection to the slightly southwest extending federal highway 6 From the B 27, the mountain north passing through the country road branches in 1095 ( Neckarsulm - Amorbach - Dahenfeld ) from. On and on the mountain run numerous routes of vineyards.