Merkenberg Castle

Merkenberg Castle
Alternative name (s):	Erkenberg Castle
Creation time :	around 1200
Castle type :	Höhenburg in the summit
Conservation status:	Burgstall, earthworks
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Truss
Place:	Envious people
Geographical location	48 ° 35 '16.5 "  N , 9 ° 34' 29.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '16.5 "  N , 9 ° 34' 29.3"  E
Height:	742.9  m above sea level NN

The Castle Mountain Remember that even castle Erkenberg is called, is an Outbound hilltop castle at 742.9  m above sea level. NN near the community of Neidlingen in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The lost Merkenberg Castle was probably founded around 1200 by Count Egino von Aichelberg . It is mentioned for the first time in 1247 with the brothers Diepold and Ulrich von Merckenberg . It was probably not completely finished and consisted only of half-timbered buildings . The neighboring castle of Burg Windeck belonged to it .

Between 1334 and 1339 rule passed to Württemberg and the castle was left to decay. In 1535 it is only referred to as the Burgstall .

See also

• Reußenstein , another castle (ruin) in the Neidlingen district

literature

• Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 4: Alb Mitte-Nord - Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Verlag Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 61-68.
• The district of Esslingen, Volume 2 . ed. from the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern, page 218. ISBN 978-3-7995-0842-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Castles and palaces in the Esslingen district ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Burgrest Windeck, accessed July 8, 2010