Gosheim Castle

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Gosheim Castle
Gosheim Castle

Gosheim Castle

Alternative name (s): Gosheim Castle
Creation time : early middle ages
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Castle rest
Standing position : Knight
Construction: Humpback cuboid
Place: Huisheim -Gosheim
Geographical location 48 ° 49 '54 .4 "  N , 10 ° 43' 11.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '54  .4 " N , 10 ° 43' 11.4"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NN

The castle Gosheim , including Castle Gosheim called, is the residue of a castle in the Gosheimer cemetery wall in the municipality Huisheim in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

In the high medieval knight's castle , unaware of its history is known, still existing in the high erected cemetery wall show mogul square of the Romanesque keep's out of the main building of the later castle was. The castle was secured by a rampart and a moat , which presumably also served to protect a predecessor complex, probably an early fortress . The cemetery wall also shows the remains of a battlement and loopholes on the inner side .

literature

  • Wilfried Sponsel, Hartmut Steger: Past castles and mansions. A search for traces in the view of the giant . Typesetting and graphics partner, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-935438-27-3 , pp. 138-141.

Web links

Commons : Burg Gosheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files