Hoheneybach Castle

Hoheneybach Castle
	Heavenly rock on which the castle stood
Creation time :	First mentioned in 1265
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Castle stable, remains of the wall, neck ditch
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Geislingen an der Steige -Eybach
Geographical location	48 ° 38 '18.2 " N , 9 ° 52' 19.6" E Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '18.2 " N , 9 ° 52' 19.6" E
Height:	602 m above sea level NN

The castle Hoheneybach is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 602 m above sea level. NN high sky rock in the district Eybach of the city Geislingen an der Steige in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built by the von Helfenstein family of ministers and was first mentioned in 1265. From 1456 the castle was the ancestral seat of the von Degenfeld family . The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , but is believed to have been inhabited in 1711 and was in ruins from 1724 .

Today the castle site only shows traces of terrain with remains of wall and behind the sky rock a thirteen meter deep neck ditch .

View from the north of the sky rock with the deep ditch clearly visible in winter

View from the neck ditch up to the remains of the castle wall

High surface on which the palace was

Wall remains on the north corner of the castle

View from Himmelsfelsen down to Eybach Castle

Floor plan of the castle stable: 1: Neck ditch 2: Castle site 3: Plateau 4: Steeply sloping rock 5: Lookout point 6 : Remnants of wall 7: Remains of tufa facing 8: Path from Eybach

literature

Konrad Albrecht Koch: Hoheneybach Castle . In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . Number 5, 1915.
Hartwig Zürn : Eybach . In: The prehistoric site monuments and the medieval castle sites in the districts of Göppingen and Ulm . 1961.
Günter Schmitt : Hoheneybach . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 - Nordost-Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 223-228.

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