Hohenau Castle

Hohenau Castle
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Oberdachstetten - Hohenau - "Schlossbuck"
Geographical location	49 ° 23 '37.1 " N , 10 ° 27' 15.2" E Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '37.1 " N , 10 ° 27' 15.2" E
Height:	478 m above sea level NHN

The castle Hohenau is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle at 478 m above sea level. NHN on the Schlossbuck about 200 meters north of the center of Hohenau , a current district of the municipality of Oberdachstetten in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach in Bavaria .

No remains of the former castle complex have survived.

First mentioned in a document in 1398 as "Hohenaib", Johann von Hohenlohe sold the place to the Burgraviate of Nuremberg .

literature

Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 188.

↑ R. Krusche, p. 207. After E. Fechter, p. 99, first mentioned in 1447 as “Hohenawe”.