Hohenkressberg Castle

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Hohenkressberg Castle
Alternative name (s): Kreßberg
Creation time : around 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall and moat remains
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Kreßberg- Hohenkreßberg
Geographical location 49 ° 8 '27.7 "  N , 10 ° 13' 59.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '27.7 "  N , 10 ° 13' 59.3"  E
Height: 511  m above sea level NN

The ruins of Hohenkressberg Castle , formerly known as Kreßberg , are the remains of a hilltop castle at 511  m above sea level. NN high Kreßberg in the district Hohenkreßberg of the community Kreßberg in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

View of the Kreßberg district of Marktlustenau. To the left behind the poplar you can see the forest hill on which the Hohenkreßberg Castle, which gives the entire community its name, stood.

history

The castle was probably built in the 13th century by the Lords of Kreßberg. The first documentary mention was around 1303, further mentions followed in 1333 and 1345. After the Lords of Kreßberg, the castle changed hands several times. In 1545 the Kreßberg rule was sold to Ulrich von Knöringen , bailiff in Crailsheim. The castle burned down in 1648, and in 1723 a pilgrimage chapel was built in the moat area of ​​the castle . The former castle complex had a neck ditch (slope ditch), an edge wall and a moat .

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 138-141 ( Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 18).

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