Walterstein Castle
Walterstein Castle | ||
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Creation time : | Early 12th century | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall, ramparts and rubble visible | |
Standing position : | Nobles | |
Place: | Kolbingen | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 3 '56.5 " N , 8 ° 51' 33.8" E | |
Height: | 850 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Walter Stein formerly Walti Stone wrote, called a Outbound rock castle on an advanced 850 m above sea level. NN high limestone cliffs on the edge of the Alb plateau 2900 meters northwest of the municipality of Kolbingen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
Of the castle, built by the von Walterstein family in the first half of the 13th century and destroyed around 1485, only traces of the terrain and rubble can be seen.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Walterstein and Burgstall . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 313-316.
- 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. 79-80.