Amtenhausen Castle
Amtenhausen Castle | ||
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Remains of the castle rooms |
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Alternative name (s): | Castle rooms | |
Creation time : | around 800 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Wall, ditch | |
Place: | Immendingen - rooms | |
Geographical location | 47 ° 56 '56 " N , 8 ° 41' 13" E | |
Height: | 830 m above sea level NN | |
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The Castle Office Hausen , also castle rooms called, is a hilltop castle site (rampart) of 830 m above sea level. NN on a steep slope near the former Amtenhausen monastery , about 2250 meters northwest of the district ofzimmer of the municipality of Immendingen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
The ramparts, probably built between the 8th and 11th centuries, above a steep slope on a mountain slope, were probably not related to the Amtenhausen monastery founded in 1107 or its predecessor settlement. The rampart consists of an approximately 75 m long section rampart and a ditch in front of it, as well as an approximately 70 m long, terraced slope following the lower wall end, including an artificial embankment within the area.
literature
- Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts near Ippingen and Zimmer (Immendingen municipality, Tuttlingen district) (= Atlas of archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2, Issue 7). State Monument Authority of Baden-Württemberg. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 13-25, pp. 49-51.
- Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance. In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN 0178-3262 , pp. 77 and 141.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts near Ippingen andzimmer (Immendingen municipality, Tuttlingen district) (Series Atlas of archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2, Issue 7), Baden-Württemberg State Monument Office, Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 16-17.
- ↑ Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts at Ippingen and rooms. Pp. 21-25, p. 50.