Brettheim Castle

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Brettheim Castle
Alternative name (s): Brettheim Castle
Castle type : Hill castle, probably moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Rot am See -Brettheim
Geographical location 49 ° 16 '42.9 "  N , 10 ° 5' 14.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '42.9 "  N , 10 ° 5' 14.9"  E
Height: 435  m above sea level NN
Brettheim Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Brettheim Castle

The castle Brettheim , even Brettheim Burg called, is a Outbound hilltop castle , possibly a moth (motte), on a 435  m above sea level. NN high hill on the southern edge of the district Brettheim of the municipality Rot am See in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg .

Presumably the castle was built by the Lords of Brettheim, named between 1251 and 1444, as a Staufer fiefdom , came to wealthy Rothenburg citizens in the middle of the 15th century and certainly no longer existed at the beginning of the Peasants' War.

The castle, whose existence is still indicated by names such as “Burggraben”, “Burgebauer” and “Burgemichel”, was a stable stone house surrounded by ramparts and moats .

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , p. 178.

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