Haideck Castle

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Haideck Castle
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall and moat
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Small ashlar masonry
Place: Trochtelfingen
Geographical location 48 ° 19 '47.3 "  N , 9 ° 14' 55.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '47.3 "  N , 9 ° 14' 55.1"  E
Height: 768.1  m above sea level NN

The castle Haideck is the residue of a hilltop castle at 768.1  m above sea level. NN north of the city of Trochtelfingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built at the beginning of the 12th century by the Lords of Haideck , mentioned in 1139 and destroyed in 1311. Only the rampart and moat are left of the former castle complex.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 5 • West Alb. Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 53-58.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 149-150.