Older castle mansions

Older castle mansions
Alternative name (s):	Upper castle
Creation time :	11th century
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, trench remains
Place:	Bösingen
Geographical location	48 ° 13 '25.9 "  N , 8 ° 35' 15.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '25.9 "  N , 8 ° 35' 15.5"  E

The older castle Herrenzimmern , also called Obere Burg , is the remainder of a castle in Herrenzimmern, a current part of the municipality of Bösingen in the Rottweil district in Baden-Württemberg .

According to Zimmerchen's chronicle , an upper and a lower castle existed in mansions as early as the second half of the 11th century . In the period from 1077 to 1080 the upper castle was destroyed and further destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years War . In the west of the upper castle you can still see the moat broken into the rock .

literature

• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Herrenzimmern at leo-bw.de
2. ↑ Entry on mansions (older castle, rooms) in the private database “All castles”.