Baldelau Castle
| Baldelau Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1316 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Disappeared, neck ditch and remains of the foundation wall preserved | |
| Place: | Gomadingen -Wasserstetten | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 21 '44.4 " N , 9 ° 25' 29.2" E | |
| Height: | 700 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Baldelau is an Outbound hilltop castle at about 700 m above sea level. NN in the district of Wasserstetten in the municipality of Gomadingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
The history of this castle is still completely in the dark, no documentary mentions are known about it. In 1316 and 1462, the forest land there was mentioned in documents with the name Baldenloch . Another piece of news about this facility comes from the year 1745, at that time a Baldenlauh castle was called "an old ruined castle" .
All that remains of the former castle complex is a ditch and the remains of the foundation walls .
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Baldelau . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 2: Alb Middle-South. Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 143-146.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source: Günter Schmitt: Baldelau . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 2: Alb Middle-South. Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen , p. 145