Bosenstein Castle
| Bosenstein Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Hagenbruck Castle | |
| Creation time : | 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains, trench | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Place: | Ottenhöfen in the Black Forest | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 33 '59 " N , 8 ° 9' 42.1" E | |
| Height: | 408 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Bosenstein even Hagen Brucker Castle called, is the ruin of a Spur castle on the castle hump behind the courtyard near the village Ottenhöfen in the Black Forest in Ortenaukreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg . It is around 408 meters above sea level .
The hilltop castle was built in the 11th century by the Counts of Eberstein, mentioned in 1291 as castrum Botzenstein , expanded in 1617, destroyed in the Thirty Years War and demolished in 1840. The owners of the castle were the lords of Bosenstein. From the former castle complex, which had a core castle with outer bailey, the accessible neck ditch and wall remains have been preserved.
literature
- Hans-Martin Pillin: The Bosenstein Castle . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden , Volume 64. Publishing House of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 ,
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Ortenau district - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , pp. 91-92.