Bogeneck Castle

Bogeneck Castle
Alternative name (s):	Aistaig Castle
Creation time :	1150 to 1250
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Remains of the foundation
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Humpback block masonry
Place:	Oberndorf am Neckar -Aistaig
Geographical location	48 ° 19 '9.5 "  N , 8 ° 35' 28.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '9.5 "  N , 8 ° 35' 28.3"  E
Height:	565  m above sea level NN

The castle Bogeneck even castle Aistaig called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle in the village of Aistaig the city Oberndorf am Neckar in the district of Rottweil in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The Spornburg lies at 565  m above sea level. NN on a plateau spur above the steep drop to the Neckar valley . According to current archaeological finds, the castle was not built before the middle of the 12th century. In addition, the work of A. Antonov provides information that the castle was built around the beginning of the 13th century. Remains of the shield wall made of humpback ashlar masonry are still preserved from the former fortified castle complex with a shield wall .

literature

• Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 270-271.
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 114.
• Alexander Antonow: Castles of southwest Germany in the 13th and 14th centuries - with special consideration of the shield wall . Konkordia publishing house, Bühl / Baden 1977, ISBN 3-7826-0040-1 , pp. 127-128.

Web links

• Bogeneck Castle at www.burg-ruinen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Antonow: Castles of southwest Germany in the 13th and 14th centuries - with special consideration of the shield wall . Ed .: Verlag Konkordia.