Walterstein Castle

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Walterstein Castle
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 Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '56.5 "  N , 8 ° 51' 33.8"  E
Height: 850  m above sea level NN
Walterstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Walterstein Castle

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.

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