Heggelbach Castle

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Heggelbach Castle
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Herdwangen-Schönach - Oberndorf - Heggelbach
Geographical location 47 ° 51 '5.1 "  N , 9 ° 8' 36.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '5.1 "  N , 9 ° 8' 36.8"  E
Height: 660  m above sea level NN

The castle Heggelbach is an Outbound Spur castle on a 660  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur near Heggelbach , a district of Oberndorf in the municipality of Herdwangen-Schönach in the district of Sigmaringen ( Baden-Württemberg ).

Presumably, the castle was built in 1717 on the site of St. George's Chapel , where the chapel of low noble knight of Heggelbach, 1169 for the first time in documents as Haggilinbach mentioned was.

The Lords of Heggelbach mentioned in some documents, who were originally ministerials of the Counts of Heiligenberg , left their ancestral castle in 1300 and went to Dauenberg .

Individual evidence

  1. Heggelbach at leo-bw.de
  2. Burgstall Heggelbach at andreas-utz.info