Dachsberg Castle
| Dachsberg Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Obermarchtal | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 12 '42.1 " N , 9 ° 35' 33.7" E | |
| Height: | 605 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Dachsberg is a Outbound Höhenburg 3000 m southeast on a hill near the village of Obermarchtal in the Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg . It is located at around 605 m above sea level. NN .
The castle belonged to the places Dachdorf, Ober- and Niederdachdorf (805 Dhahdhorf ). Desert south of Obermarchtal between Upper Marbach and Dachsberg Castle. Alb-Donau-Kreis about 15 kilometers southwest of Ehingen.
In the 12th century the place and the castle were owned by the Counts of Veringen and local knight families.
From the castle, which was built on a 7 meter high castle hill before 1200 with a 24 x 7 meter oval castle complex, only small remains of ramparts and moats can be seen.
literature
- State Surveying Office Baden-Württemberg and State Monuments Office Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Archaeological Monuments in Baden-Württemberg . New edition. Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89021-717-6 , pp. 224-225.
Individual evidence
- ^ Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (ed.): Germania Sacra. The Church of the Old Kingdom and its Institutions. The imperial premonstratensian monastery Marchtal. De Gruyter Berlin / Boston 2012. p. 468.