Castle killer

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Castle killer
Creation time : Probably 13th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Place: Burladingen - killer
Geographical location 48 ° 18 '59 "  N , 9 ° 3' 45.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '59 "  N , 9 ° 3' 45.8"  E
Height: 645  m above sea level NN
Killer Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Castle killer

The Killer Castle is a lost moated castle in Killer , a district of Burladingen in the Zollernalb district ( Baden-Württemberg ). The facility was located about 200 meters north of the church and west of the town hall between Hofstättstrasse and Bolweg.

history

The castle was built by the Lords of Killer, they were Ministeriale of the Counts of Zollern and were mentioned in the 13th century. In addition to their ancestral castle in the village of Killer, the ministerials also owned Frundsburg Castle , which is only a little to the north . They also called themselves after Ringelstein Castle and Ringingen .

In 1375 Heinrich von Killer fighting as an equestrian leader in Italy with the nickname "Affenschmalz" can be traced. The noble family probably died out in 1485.

description

In 1954, the remains of the castle were discovered and documented during an excavation . A trench was found that bent at a right angle and the legs were 24 meters long. The trench was two meters wide at its bottom and eight meters at the top. Since sediments were found at its bottom , it must have been a water-bearing ditch. In addition, there was a 60 centimeter thick lining wall at the edge of the ditch .

Further remains of the foundation wall with a thickness of two meters were found in the inner castle area; they suggest a tower-shaped building or a permanent house . Today the private area is a garden property.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 338–339.

Web links

  • Entry on Burg Killer in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Schmitt: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district , p. 338ff.
  2. ↑ Killer at leo-bw