Herrentierbach Castle

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Herrentierbach Castle
Creation time : around 1141
Castle type : Niederungsburg, Motte, location
Conservation status: Burgstall, ditch
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Blaufelden - Herrentierbach
Geographical location 49 ° 19 '34 "  N , 9 ° 53' 13"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '34 "  N , 9 ° 53' 13"  E
Height: 461.5  m above sea level NN

The castle Herrentierbach is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (Motte) in the village Herrentierbach the town of Blaufelden in district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The lords of Tierbach built the castle with ring moat . It was mentioned for the first time in 1141 and stood on the western edge of the north-moving Tierbach , about 30 meters above the water. The village of Herren tierbach is named after the lords of the castle and was first mentioned in a document in 1156. Around 1400, the Rothenburgers destroyed the castle. Only a double moat is left of the former complex.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . ( Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 18). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 34-36.