Hello my friends,
here comes another selfshot video of a lost place near my hometown. The venue is a water castle ruin in Metzingen in the South of Germany.
The history of the castle goes back to 1359 where two castles were mentioned in Menzingen, probably the predecessors of the water castle and the nearby Schwanenburg. According to this, the water castle was built on one of this former castles. The early architectural history and the former appearance of predecessor buildings are not known and can only be deduced on the basis of structural features of the ruin. Owners from the High Middle Ages were the lords of Mentzingen. In the Peasants' War, the original castle was destroyed by insurgent peasants. Under Peter von Mentzingen (1498-1565) was then a new building from 1529 to 1539 as a three-storey in the style of the Renaissance. Construction elements and wall parts of the old castle complex are still in the southern and southwestern area existing.
The Lords of Mentzingen moved their headquarters to Gondelsheim in the 17th century. In the early 18th century was rebuilt under the brothers Maximilian and Benjamin of Mentzingen on the building and it received in 1707 the magnificent blazon on the main portal. In the middle he shows the coat of arms of the barons of Mentzingen (raven in the shield, swan as a helmet ornament), on the left the coat of arms of Maximilian's wife Margaretha Elisabeth Schaffelitzki of Muckadell, on the right the arms of Benjamin's wife Sophia Charlotte Klenke of Renckhausen. From 1723 to 1790 the Menzinger moated castle was uninhabited. Then the building was topped up, the wooden drawbridge replaced by a solid stone bridge, and the castle re-inhabited.
Here are some more photos around the ruin.
The place is directly located to an habited farm.
The ruin is closed for trespass.
But with the drone
I could get some decent shots of the area.
This is how the water castle in Metzingen looked like in 1905.
On April 2, 1945, unfortunately the castle was destroyed in the last weeks of the second world war, in a fighter-bomber attack. Only parts of the foundations still towered up to four meter high rubble mountains.
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My intention is to deliver high quality footage and therefore I carefully select all photos to portray the beautiful visited places, as I would like to preserve them in my memory.
All colour photos and videos are self shot with an Samsung NX1 camera with a 16-50mm f 2.8 S Premium S lens and DJI Mavic Air drone.
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