Bärenburg Castle (Ramsbach)
| Bärenburg ruins | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg in spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Counts, clericals | |
| Place: | Oppenau- Ramsbach | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 29 '39.1 " N , 8 ° 7' 51.2" E | |
| Height: | 450 m above sea level NN | |
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The ruin Bärenburg is the ruin of a spur castle west of Ramsbach, a district of Oppenau , in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg . It lies on a steeply sloping mountain ledge on the western edge of the valley of the Rench River at around 450 meters above sea level .
history
The castle was built in the 12th century by the Counts of Freiburg and was first mentioned in 1307. Other owners were the Lords of Bärenbach and the Bishops of Strasbourg. After 1470 the castle fell into disrepair. Only 2 meter high wall remains of the former castle complex are left. The keep had a base area of 7.5 by 7.5 meters and a wall thickness of 1.7 to 2.2 meters.
literature
- Dieter Krauss The Bear Castle . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Verlag Historischer Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, pp. 222–223.
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 88.
- Wolfgang Krüger: The German castles and palaces in color. Castles, palaces, fortifications, manor houses and aristocratic palaces in the Federal Republic of Germany and Berlin (West) . Wolfgang Krüger Verlag / S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8105-0228-6 .
Web links
- Burgruine Bärenburg on the website burgen-und-ruinen.de ( Memento from August 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Historical reconstruction drawing