Brandeck Castle

Brandeck Castle
Creation time :	around 1100
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Dornhan- Aischfeld
Geographical location	48 ° 20 '38.4 "  N , 8 ° 29' 22.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '38.4 "  N , 8 ° 29' 22.2"  E
Height:	640.3  m above sea level NN

The castle Brandeck is the ruin rest a hilltop castle at 640.3  m above sea level. NN 1800 meters southwest of the town of Dornhan in the Rottweil district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was probably built around 1110 by the Lords of Fluorn , ministerials of the Counts of Sulz , who from then on called themselves Lords of Brandeck. Towards the end of the 13th century the Dukes of Teck took over the castle, and from 1399 at the latest it belonged to the House of Württemberg .

Remains of a shield wall are still preserved from the former castle complex.

See also: Ruin Sterneck , built 1230–1250 by Vollmar von Brandeck

literature

• Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .

Web links

• Brandeck at burgeninventar.de ( Memento from March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Brandeck ruins at burg-ruinen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Rüth , Dorothee Ade, Cajetan Schaub (ed.): Aristocratic seats between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb . Belser, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7630-2687-6 . P. 17.