Auchtbühl Castle

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Auchtbühl Castle
Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, Wall and Graben
Place: Beuron- Neidingen
Geographical location 48 ° 5 '26.7 "  N , 9 ° 3' 47"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '26.7 "  N , 9 ° 3' 47"  E
Height: 691.4  m above sea level NN
Auchtbühl Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Auchtbühl Castle

The castle Auchtbühl is an Outbound Spur castle on a flat mountain ridge at 691.4  m above sea level. NN in a loop of the Danube 650 meters southeast of Neidingen , a district of the municipality of Beuron in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built by the 13th century at the latest, and was mentioned as a castle stables together with the Schauenburg as early as 1497 ("the burgstall enhalb [= on the other side, ie opposite the Schauenburg] of the Thonow") owned by the Lords of Hausen .

The former castle complex had a total area of ​​4600 square meters with a core castle of 800 square meters. Today's Burgstall only shows the remains of a wall and two moats .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 3 • Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 141-144.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Stuttgart 1978, pp. 53 and 163.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine: The castle stable on the Auchtbühl . Municipality of Beuron, district of Hausen im Tal, district of Sigmaringen BuS 1978 / II, p. 84.

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 53