Hengstfeld Castle

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Hengstfeld Castle
Creation time : probably 11th to 12th centuries
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Wallhausen stallion field
Geographical location 49 ° 13 '3.4 "  N , 10 ° 5' 41.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '3.4 "  N , 10 ° 5' 41.4"  E
Height: 450  m above sea level NN
Hengstfeld Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Hengstfeld Castle

The castle Hengstfeld is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth) north of the church in the district Hengstfeld the municipality Wallhausen in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The lords of Hengstfeld , feudal people of the Hohenlohe, are attested as owners of the castle, which was probably built in the 11th to 12th centuries, until 1312. After the von Hengstenfeld was extinguished, the castle and its accessories came to the drought of Crailsheim and, through their heirs, to the von Wollmershausen family in 1356. The castle and the place were destroyed in the city ​​war in 1449 .

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 267-268.

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