Buttenhausen Castle
| Buttenhausen Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | "Old castle on the mountain" | |
| Creation time : | around 1389 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Enclosing wall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Münsingen- Buttenhausen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 21 '44.6 " N , 9 ° 28' 46.9" E | |
| Height: | 665 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Buttenhausen , even ancient castle on the mountain called, is the ruin of a Spur castle at about 665 m above sea level at the site of the new cemetery on the St. Michael's Church of the district Buttenhausen in the town of Münsingen in the district of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle was mentioned in 1389 when knight Friedrich III. von Gundelfingen sold the bailiwick in Buttenhausen to Konrad, provost of the St. Maria monastery in Güterstein near Urach. In 1469 the castle was owned by the Lords of Stein and in 1569 it was sold by Wolf Dietrich von Stein to Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg . From 1812 the castle fell into disrepair and some of the stables were still in use. In 1812 the castle was owned by Baron von Münch and in 1825 the fruit box was still in use.
investment
From the former castle, the remains of the polygonal surrounding walls with numerous buttresses up to 5 meters high on the valley side are still preserved and are now used as cemetery walls . Nothing has been preserved of the neck ditch facing the mountain and the shield wall .
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 .
- Günter Schmitt : Hohengundelfingen . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 2 · Alb Middle-South. Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberach publishing house printing. Biberach an der Riss 1989. ISBN 3-924489-45-9 . Pp. 183-192