Plettenberg Castle

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Plettenberg Castle
Alternative name (s): Plaits
Creation time : around 1150
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of a moat
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Hausen am Tann - Ratshausen
Geographical location 48 ° 12 '5 "  N , 8 ° 48' 50"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '5 "  N , 8 ° 48' 50"  E
Height: 970  m above sea level NN
Plettenberg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Plettenberg Castle

The castle Plettenberg even Plaikten called, is a Outbound Spur castle at the southern end of the Plettenbergs to 970  m above sea level. NN near the municipality of Hausen am Tann in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built around 1150 and the Lords of Dotternhausen are mentioned as owners in 1228 and 1314, the castle was probably destroyed in 1309. Later the castle came into the possession of the Dotternhausen community.

The castle complex was located on a spur-like , pointed mountain plateau, which was divided into an outer and core area with two cross trenches . The remains of the moat have been preserved from the complex.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 174–177.
  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 246–247.
  • Christoph Morrissey: Dotternhausen: graves, settlements and castles on the Plettenberg . In the S. (Arrangement): Zollernalbkreis . (Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany, Volume 43). Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1763-7 , pp. 164-167.
  • Andreas Zekorn: The former Plettenberg fortress and the castle in Dotternhausen . In: Hohenzollerische Heimat . Volume 46, Number 2, June 1996, pp. 20-22. (Digitized) (PDF; 5.84 MB)
  • Günter Schmitt: Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 359-362.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , p. 81.