Finkelsburg Castle

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Finkelsburg Castle
Burgstall Weiher GO-3.jpg
Alternative name (s): Weiher Castle
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Tower remnant
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Rettenberg -Weiher
Geographical location 47 ° 34 '32.6 "  N , 10 ° 16' 46.2"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '32.6 "  N , 10 ° 16' 46.2"  E
Height: 780  m above sea level NN

The castle Finkelnburg even Burgweiher called, is the residue of a hilltop castle on a 780  m above sea level. NN high ridge 450 meters north-northeast of the hamlet Weiher in the municipality of Rettenberg in the Oberallgäu district in Bavaria .

A Wezil von Weiher is named as the owner of the castle in 1131, Hainz von Weiher in 1409, then the Lords of Winkelberg and finally the Bishop of the Augsburg Monastery . The castle was destroyed in the 14th century. At the site of the former castle complex, next to a memorial stone, there are now completely overgrown wall remains of a residential tower .

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 647.

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