Aufhofen Castle (Stetten under Holstein)

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Aufhofen Castle
The castle was located directly below the church and the cemetery on the meadow, on the left of the mountain the castle ruins of Hölnstein

The castle was located directly below the church and the cemetery on the meadow, on the left of the mountain the castle ruins of Hölnstein

Creation time : Called local nobility since the 11th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, only trenches and the tower hill remain
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Place: Burladingen - Stetten under Holstein- Aufhofen
Geographical location 48 ° 20 '2.2 "  N , 9 ° 10' 51.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '2.2 "  N , 9 ° 10' 51.4"  E
Height: 710  m above sea level NN
Aufhofen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Aufhofen Castle

The castle Aufhofen is an unknown Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth), just north of the cemetery of Stetten by Holstein at the edge of the valley of Lauchert in the town of Burladingen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

To this day, no documentary evidence is known about this small castle complex, it is unknown who built it, who sat on it or why it no longer exists. There is no evidence of the name Burg Aufhofen, it can only be traced back to the fact that the facility is located in the Stetten district of Aufhofen. It was probably the original seat of the von Hölnstein family of ministers, mentioned in the 11th century, who first appeared with Adilbert and Ogger von Hölnstein. They were related to those of Melchingen and the Lords of Lichtenstein. Later they sat on the Höhenburg Hölnstein , which was not built until the 13th century.

description

The Niederungsburg next to the cemetery only shows the rectangular tower hill measuring around nine by six meters, which only rises around 1.50 meters above the meadow. It is surrounded by a one meter deep ditch with an outer wall, calculated from the outside, 0.4 meters high, of which only the northern and eastern parts have been preserved.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 339–341.
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 51-52.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 340ff.
  2. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 339.