Littstein Castle
| Littstein Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Hohenlittstein | |
| Creation time : | 1200 to 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Bad Urach | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 26 '17.3 " N , 9 ° 28' 31.3" E | |
| Height: | 760 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Litt stone , even the High Litt stone called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on a 760 m above sea level. NN high rock, the Littstein, above the Trailfinger Gorge near the town of Bad Urach in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
The castle was built in the 13th century, mentioned in 1396 and was already abandoned in the 13th century. The city of Urach and the state of Baden-Württemberg are named as former owners.
Only a remnant of the moat has been preserved from the former castle complex with an arched neck moat and a 32 by 18 meter core castle .
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 4 • Alb Middle-North. Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 253-258.
- Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , p. 41.