Oberrommental Castle

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Oberrommental Castle
Creation time : around 1250
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministerialenburg
Place: Schlat -Rommental
Geographical location 48 ° 39 '16.2 "  N , 9 ° 43' 48.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '16.2 "  N , 9 ° 43' 48.7"  E
Height: 553.4  m above sea level NN
Oberrommental Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Oberrommental Castle

The castle Oberrommental is an Outbound hilltop castle on a 553.4  m above sea level. NN high hill in the Schlater Forest near the hamlet Rommental of the municipality of Schlat in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built around 1250 by the Spitzbergisch- help stone ministers , the knights of Böhringen, presumably to supervise an early trade route from Oberböhringen to Süßen , which connected Ulm and Schwäbisch Gmünd . In 1396 the castle was sold to the imperial city of Ulm.

The castle stable , on which there is a forest workers' hut, still shows the neck ditch and small remains of the wall, including a shield wall .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Oberrommental . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 - Nordost-Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 303-308.

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