Linden Castle
| Linden Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1214 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, island location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Hochdorf -Unteressendorf | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 1 '15.2 " N , 9 ° 45' 34.6" E | |
| Height: | 550 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Linden is an Outbound island castle on a peninsula in Linde pond in which the district of Essen village of the municipality Hochdorf in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built around 1214 and destroyed in 1525. Former owners were the taverns of Winterstetten, Messrs. Schad zur Linden and Messrs. Von Essendorf.
Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex, presumably equipped with a hexagonal residential tower .
literature
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .