Ermengerst Castle

Ermengerst Castle
Creation time :	first mentioned 1037
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Wiggensbach - barley
Geographical location	47 ° 43 '16.4 "  N , 10 ° 15' 33.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '16.4 "  N , 10 ° 15' 33.1"  E
Height:	850  m above sea level NN

Dei Castle Ermengerst is an Outbound hilltop castle on 850  m above sea level. NN about 850 meters south-southeast of the church in the Ermengerst district “am Hohen Egg” in the Wiggensbach community in the Oberallgäu district ( Bavaria ).

In 1037 the "Ermengerster Castle" was first mentioned as the seat of a ministerial family of the Kempten Abbey. The castle is also said to have been the seat of the Ermengerster Marshals . In 1288 a "Knight of Ermengerst" was named with the capture of the Iberg Fortress.

No remains of the former castle complex have survived.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burg Ermengerst at fewomandrik.de ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Ermengerst.de