Hohenalfingen Castle
Hohenalfingen Castle | ||
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Creation time : | around 1200 | |
Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
Conservation status: | Wall remains, trench | |
Standing position : | Nobles | |
Place: | Aalen - Oberalfingen | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 52 '54.3 " N , 10 ° 8' 25.4" E | |
Height: | 535 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Hohenalfingen is the ruins of a hilltop castle at 535 m above sea level. NN on a high foothills of the Swabian Alb above the Oberalfingen district of the Hofen district of the city of Aalen in the Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built by the Lords of Ahelfingen, first mentioned around 1200, as their ancestral seat . They built Wasseralfingen Castle around 1337 after which they were first named in 1377. During or after the Thirty Years War , the castle was almost completely destroyed. Today there are still remnants of the two-meter-thick ring wall and a 50-meter-wide and 15-meter-deep ditch. A “never-ending” well is said to have been found in this ditch at the end of the 19th century, but it was later filled in. During excavations around 1950, the remains of a round tower were discovered in today's courtyard of the core castle , possibly the foundations of a keep . At Krahe, on the other hand, the keep is square with a side length of nine meters and a wall thickness of 2.5 meters.
literature
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 280.
- Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 22: Aalen, Lauchheim, Ellwangen . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1973, p. 93.