Randeck Castle (Esslingen District)
| Randeck ruins | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1280 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg in the valley edge | |
| Conservation status: | Earthwork, remains of the foundation of the curtain wall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Bissingen on the Teck | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 34 '37.9 " N , 9 ° 32' 16.1" E | |
| Height: | 790 m above sea level NN | |
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The Randeck ruin is an abandoned hilltop castle at 790 m above sea level. NN in the Ochsenwang district , a district of the municipality of Bissingen an der Teck in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
The former castle, 1200 meters south of the town of Hepsisau, directly on the Albtrauf , was built by Heinrich von Randegge in the 13th century, remained in the possession of the Lords of Randeck and was destroyed after 1500. Traces of the moat can still be seen. The Randecker were a family that came from Klettgau and Schaffhausen . → Radegg ruins , Randegg Castle or Randenburg .
Randeck Castle is the namesake of the Randecker Maar , located about one kilometer west of the castle site .
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 4: Alb Mitte-Nord - Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Verlag Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 81–84
- Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
- The Esslingen district - published by the Esslingen district, Stuttgart 1978, p. 203
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