Azilun Castle

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Azilun Castle
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall and moat remains
Place: Burladingen
Geographical location 48 ° 18 '11.1 "  N , 9 ° 5' 18.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '11.1 "  N , 9 ° 5' 18.8"  E
Height: 884.3  m above sea level NN
Azilun Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Azilun Castle

The castle Azilun is an Outbound Spur castle in 884.3  meters above sea level. NN height on the Hausener Kapf , a foothill of the Upper Mountain, a mountain cone northwest of the city of Burladingen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was in 1100 with the involvement of a prehistoric plant from the late Bronze and early Celts built and in 1138 in the Zwiefalter Chronicle with the transcript of the monk Berthold "Otto von Urach was with his wife Tuticha half a Hube in Burladingen that Tutichas brother Konrad von Azilun again ”mentioned. Around 1200 the castle was given up as a residence. From the former castle complex, which had a core castle , kennel and a southern and northern moat , small remains of the core masonry, wall and moat remains.

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. 136-139.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 211-215.
  • 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. 187-190.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 58-59.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 5 · West Alb. Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen, p. 190