Kirnberg Castle (Orsingen-Nenzingen)

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Kirnberg Castle
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Nobles, Ministerials
Place: Orsingen-Nenzingen
Geographical location 47 ° 49 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 9 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 9 ″  E
Height: 585  m above sea level NHN
Kirnberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Kirnberg Castle

The castle Kirnberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 585  m above sea level. NHN Kirnberg massif 1500 meters south of the church in the Orsingen district of the Orsingen-Nenzingen community in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

Small remains of ramparts and moats have been preserved from the former castle .

literature

  • Michael Losse (ed.): Castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications on northern Lake Constance, Volume 1.1: Western part around Sipplingen, Überlingen, Heiligenberg and Salem . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-191-1 , p. 114.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 87 and 144.