Alzenach Castle
| Alzenach Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, Burgstelle only recognizable in the aerial photo | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Place: | Breisach am Rhein - Gündlingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 1 '2.7 " N , 7 ° 38' 52.9" E | |
| Height: | 193 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Alzenach is an Outbound lowland castle immediately northeast of the district Gündlingen the town of Breisach am Rhein in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle, mentioned in the 12th century, was owned by ministerials of the Dukes of Zähringen and in 1283 came to the Order of St. John . The castle was destroyed before 1347 and the property belonging to it came to the Sulzburg convent . Nothing has survived from the former castle complex , the castle site is now covered by agricultural land, it can only be seen in the aerial photo.
literature
- Alfons Zettler, Thomas Zotz (eds.): The castles in the medieval Breisgau, I. Northern part: half volume AK . In: archeology and history. Freiburg research on the first millennium in southwest Germany, issue 14 . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-7364-X , pp. 175-178.
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .