Niederschopfheim Castle
| Niederschopfheim Castle | |
|---|---|
| Creation time : | 1000 to 1200 |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall |
| Standing position : | Nobles |
| Place: | Hohberg - Niederschopfheim |
| Height: | 208 m above sea level NN |
The castle Niederschopfheim is an Outbound hilltop castle at 208 m above sea level. NN on the Zixen- or Zizenberg in the district of Niederschopfheim in the municipality of Hohberg in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built by the knights of Schopfenheim in the 11th or 12th century and destroyed in 1534. Other owners were the Lords of Windeck and the Knights of Bach. Nothing has been preserved from the castle complex, which cannot be precisely located.
In 2010, a replica of a castle ruin was built on the listed hilltop of the Zixenberg , which resulted in a conflict between the lord of the castle and the monument protection authority.
literature
- Kurt Klein: castles, palaces and ruins. Witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 41.
- Josef Bayer: The castle in Niederschopfheim . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden , Volume 64. Publishing house of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , pp. 301-302.