Granheim Castle

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Granheim Castle
Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Ehingen -Granheim
Geographical location 48 ° 18 '47.1 "  N , 9 ° 34' 16.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '47.1 "  N , 9 ° 34' 16.5"  E
Height: 745  m above sea level NN
Granheim Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Granheim Castle

The Burg Granheim is an Outbound hilltop castle on the behind the castle Granheim rising 745  meters above sea level. NN high Schlossberg im Gewann Burgstall on the left outskirts of Granheim, a district of the city of Ehingen , in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle, built in the 13th century by the lords of Granheim, was later owned by the lords of Gundelfingen and was destroyed around 1395. Nothing is left of the castle.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Granheim . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 2 · Alb Middle-South. Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 127-132.