Schneeburg

Look at Ebringen with the snow castle in the background

The snow castle is a ruined castle on the summit 516 meters above sea level. NN western high secondary summit of Schoenberg on the boundary of Ebringen in the district of Breisgau in the Black Forest. It lies between Uffhausen in today's district of Freiburg Sankt Georgen and Ebringen.

History

Your builder and namesake, due to the old name " Schnewesberg " suspected in the Snewlins, one of the most respected and wealthiest in the 13th century families in Freiburg. Others versions after the castle was built by the Lords of Hornberg. It was first mentioned in 1312. 1349 handed Werner von Hornberg them into the suzerainty of the monastery of St. gall, from which he was returned to it in the form of a fief again. Consequently, the small feudal rule Ebringen arose. it seems that the gentlemen Schnewlin still respect certain rights or income therefrom, because a contract was signed on June 7, 1387, between the men of Schnewlin Wiger and Hornberigschen brothers Hanman, Ulrich, Werner and Brun, closed because of the snow castle and the village Ebringen.

Due to the pledge of the snow castle by Ulrich von Hornberg to his son Berchtold Schnewlin Berenlapp she came back to the Lords Schnewlin again. By an agreement dated November 19, 1426 agreement now forced Konrad, the grandson of Ulrich von Hornberg, the right to be able to solve the snow castle against a payment of 1,200 gold florins back from the pawn shaft. However, since he could not raise the money, he married the daughter of the ado pledgee and prescribed her with the permission of the monastery of St. Gall, 2500 florins to the rule. Thus, the fief was transformed into a " women fief ". 1444 Junker Konrat of Hornberg from the monastery of St. Gall with the fortress of snow castle, the associated yard and the advocacy of Ebringen and Thalhausen was enfeoffed. 1448 followed the Junker Anthoni of Hornberg, probably his son, while Albrecht von Habsburg lodged on behalf of the Konrat of Hornberg the abbot of St. Gallen complaint.

Probably before 1500, the castle was abandoned and left to decay because the Falkensteiner local government had acquired land at that time in the place Ebringen and taken up residence. This first Ebringer castle stood on the site of today, built from 1711 to 1713.

For the ever erected in older literature claim that the castle in the battles of the Peasants' War was destroyed in 1525 by the Markgräflern, such as Bader, however, there is no evidence or sources.

Description

Today is the lying on the Ebringer district castle still a small ruin with remains of the keep and maintain a residential building. The ruins are a total of only about 37 meters long and about 17 meters wide and is surrounded by a wide moat, which is carved at the lowest out of the rock on the north side. There, the rest of the keep is four storeys high and two windows to the north. About a small courtyard stands the two-part residential building in the south. In the new window openings Sandsteingesimse are installed that correspond to what was found in fragments in the old well shaft and is also used in a Fensterhöhlung. In the meantime disappeared defensive wall of the courtyard of the former entrance is suspected. In the courtyard can be seen, which is now sometimes used as a fire pit in place of the old well, a stone surround.

In the 1930s wooden observation decks and stairways existed after there on a part of the walls.