Gutach Castle
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 Gutach Castle - view from the west |
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| Alternative name (s): | Gutach tower | |
| Creation time : | around 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Digging, foundation walls | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Expert | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 16 '51.6 " N , 8 ° 11' 52.9" E | |
| Height: | 280 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Gutach , including Gutach tower called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a 280 m above sea level. NN high foothills of the Bühlerstein near the Gutach community in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built around 1300 by the Lords of Hornberg as a escort and customs station, destroyed by Strasbourg citizens in 1368 , subsequently rebuilt, destroyed again by the Strasbourgers in 1383 and demolished after 1703.
From the former castle, a tower-like building with a side length of twelve meters, the foundation walls and the ditch are still preserved.
In the Tiefenbach valley there is a second escort tower of the Hornbergs, Tiefenbach Castle .
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. 236.
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , pp. 27-28.
- Ansgar Barth: The Gutach Tower . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden , Volume 64. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , pp. 423–424 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Karlleopold Hitzfeld : The castles at Hornberg . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden , Volume 50, 1970, pp. 377–378 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
Web links
Commons : Gutach Tower - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Entry for tower near Gutach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Gutach Castle (Kinzigtal) at alemannische-seiten.de