Hausen Castle (Burzel)

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Hausen Castle
Alternative name (s): Rump
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall, a rampart and a moat have been preserved
Place: Hausen am Tann - "Burzel"
Geographical location 48 ° 12 '21.4 "  N , 8 ° 50' 35.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '21.4 "  N , 8 ° 50' 35.7"  E
Height: 850  m above sea level NHN
Hausen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hausen Castle
Burzel (forest crest in the middle of the picture) and Oberhausen farmstead near Hausen am Tann

The castle Hausen , also called Burzel , is an abandoned hilltop castle on a wooded 850  m above sea level. NHN high cliff about 1.1 kilometers northeast of the church of Hausen am Tann in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was probably built by the Lords of Hausen as a successor to a castle in the village and was abandoned by 1300 at the latest. Today's Burgstall still shows the wall and a section ditch .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 230–232.
  • 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. 347-352.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 80-81.

Web links

  • Entry for Burzel in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local history sheets Balingen: Burzel, page 484
  2. ^ Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 231ff.