Alt-Marstetten Castle
| Alt-Marstetten Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Marstetten Castle | |
| Creation time : | Early 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Ministerialenburg | |
| Place: | Aitrach - Marstetten - "Schlosshalde" | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 56 '49.6 " N , 10 ° 4' 39.9" E | |
| Height: | 660 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Castle Alt-Marstetten is an Outbound Spur castle on 660 m above sea level. NHN west of today's Marstetten district in the municipality of Aitrach in the Ravensburg district ( Baden-Württemberg ).
The facility, located immediately south of the "new" Marstetten Castle , was built by the Lords of Marstetten at the beginning of the 11th century. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Counts of Marstetten, a side line of the Counts of Irsee-Ronsberg , are mentioned. The castle was looted in 1525 and has been in ruins since the Thirty Years War .
literature
- Hans Ulrich Rudolf (eds.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0508-6 , pp. 20-27.
- Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 2: Castle ruins in the West Allgäu and in the neighboring Vorarlberg, in the Württemberg Allgäu, in the northern Allgäu around Memmingen, in the northeast Allgäu around Kaufbeuren and Obergünzburg as well as in the eastern Allgäu and in the adjacent Tyrol . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-115-7 , pp. 148-161.
- 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 .
Web links
- Entry on Alt-Marstetten in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Toni Nessler: Burgen im Allgäu, Volume 2: Castle ruins in the West Allgäu and in the neighboring Vorarlberg, in the Württemberg Allgäu, in the northern Allgäu around Memmingen, in the northeast Allgäu around Kaufbeuren and Obergünzburg as well as in the eastern Allgäu and in the adjacent Tyrol , p. 149ff.
- ↑ Marstetten at leo-bw.de