Drackenstein Castle

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Drackenstein Castle
Creation time : Probably 14th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, Spornburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Drackenstein
Geographical location 48 ° 33 '29.7 "  N , 9 ° 40' 9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '29.7 "  N , 9 ° 40' 9"  E
Height: 658  m above sea level NN
Drackenstein Castle (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Drackenstein Castle

The castle Drackenstein is an Outbound Spur castle on a 658  m above sea level. NN Bergsporn south of the church of Unterdrackenstein , part of the municipality Drackenstein in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg .

In the 14th century the castle belonged to the Lords of Westernach and in the 15th century to the Lords of Westerstetten , who then also referred to themselves as the Lords of Trackenstein . In 1589 Eitel Fritz von Westerstetten sold the village and Castle Drackenstein to Baron Kaspar Bernhard von Rechberg . In the same year ownership passed to Count Rudolf von Helfenstein .

In 1679 the castle was demolished because it was in disrepair. Around 1842, the castle site was still recognizable on the so-called castle rock through a pile of rubble.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Drackenstein . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 4 - Alb Mitte-Nord: Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 21-26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Wais: Albführer. Hikes through the Swabian Alb. Volume I - Eastern part: From Ries to Hohenneuffen , Verlag des Schwäbischen Albverein , Stuttgart, 1962, p. 294
  2. ^ Drackenstein , in Christoph Friedrich von Stälin : Description of the Oberamt Geislingen. Published by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau , Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1842, pp. 189ff.