Oggelshausen Castle

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Oggelshausen Castle
Creation time : around 1267
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: departed
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Oggelshausen
Height: 594  m above sea level NN

The castle Oggelshausen is an abandoned castle not far from the church of the community Oggelshausen in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg . The castle was about 594 meters above sea ​​level .

The local nobility was mentioned between 1267 and 1373 with the lords of "Ogoltshusen". Their castle came into the possession of the Lords of Ummendorf in 1373 and had been a pledge of the Habsburgs since 1331 .

Nothing has been preserved from the castle complex, which can no longer be precisely located.

literature

  • Stefan Uhl: Castles, palaces and aristocratic residences in the Biberach district. (= Local history sheets for the Biberach district . 9th year, special issue 1, ISSN  1430-9475 ). Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1986, p. 55.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Uhl: Castles, palaces and noble residences in the Biberach district. , P. 55