Robber's Castle Castle

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Robber's Castle Castle
Alternative name (s): Robber's Castle, Old Freudenberg Castle, Teufelsburg
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Freudenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 44 '11.4 "  N , 9 ° 18' 47.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '11.4 "  N , 9 ° 18' 47.4"  E
Robber's Castle Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Robber's Castle Castle

Burg Räuberschlösschen , also just Räuberschlösschen , Alte Burg Freudenberg or Teufelsburg , is an abandoned hilltop castle in the Freudenberg district in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

In the 12./13. In the 19th century, the castle was expanded and remodeled. The castle was owned by Carolingians or Bishop Heinrich III. accepted by Würzburg. The castle was already considered abandoned in the early 13th century.

investment

It was a trapezoidal system. The core of the facility lay on a ridge about 80 meters long and up to 45 meters wide. Presumably the old castle was a predecessor of the castle Freudenberg ( new castle ) about 600 meters above . Remnants of the wall and a moat are still preserved from the Räuberschlösschen Castle .

See also

literature

  • Sophie Stelzle-Hüglin, Michael Strobel, Andreas Thiel, Inken Vogt (arrangement): Archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office and the Baden-Württemberg State Surveying Office, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89021-717-6 , p. 109 (No. 162: Freudenberg, TBB, Räuberschlösschen).
  • Miller, Max / Taddey, Gerhard (eds.): Baden-Württemberg. Handbook of Historic Places in Germany 6 , Stuttgart 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Burg Räuberschlösschen (old castle, Teufelsburg) in Freudenberg. In: alleburgen.de. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .