Baltenstein Castle

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Baltenstein Castle
Baltenstein Castle - boulder with the remains of the residential tower

Baltenstein Castle - boulder with the remains of the residential tower

Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Tower remnant
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: House stone
Place: Betzigau -Baltenstein
Geographical location 47 ° 43 '19.1 "  N , 10 ° 24' 3.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '19.1 "  N , 10 ° 24' 3.8"  E
Height: 810  m above sea level NN
Baltenstein Castle (Bavaria)
Baltenstein Castle

The castle Balts stone is the ruin of a Spur castle on 810  m above sea level. NN southwest of the hamlet of Baltenstein in the municipality of Betzigau in the Oberallgäu district in Bavaria .

The castle was built around 1200 by the lords of Stein, who later called themselves von Baltenstein, and was mentioned in 1239 with Heinrich von Stein as a Kemptner servant. In 1276 the lords of Baldenstein were named. The castle was a fiefdom of the Kempten monastery . Shortly after 1289, the von Stein family died out with Heinrich von Stein as the last heir of the family and the castle went to the von Sulzberg taverns, after being destroyed in 1370 it came to the Kemptner citizen Ruf Schellang and in 1439 to the Kempten hospital. In the middle of the 16th century the castle was abandoned and fell into disrepair.

The former small castle complex still shows the remains of the stone foundations of a pentagonal residential tower with a base area of ​​8.5 by 15.5 meters and a wall thickness of 1.5 meters as well as wall and moat remains on an 8 meter high boulder .

  • Baltenstein castle and boulder

  • Wall remains

literature

  • Toni Nessler: Castles in the Allgäu, Volume 1: Castle ruins in the Altlandkreis Kempten and Altlandkreis Sonthofen . 1st edition. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1985, ISBN 3-88006-102-5 , pp. 100-105.
  • Dieter Buck: Castles and ruins in the Allgäu - 33 excursions in the footsteps of knights . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1602-9 , pp. 67-69.
  • Martin Müller, Herbert Scholz: News about the erratic boulder field in the Kempter Forest in the Allgäu . In: Reports of the Natural Science Association for Swabia, Volume 115 . Augsburg 2011, pp. 95-127.

Web links

Commons : Burg Baltenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files