Roggenstein Castle

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Roggenstein Castle
Creation time : 1150 to 1170
Castle type : Höhenburg, rocky location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Geislingen an der Steige -Untere Roggenmühle- "Roggenstein"
Geographical location 48 ° 39 '2.7 "  N , 9 ° 54' 8.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '2.7 "  N , 9 ° 54' 8.3"  E
Height: 570  m above sea level NN
Roggenstein Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Roggenstein Castle

The castle Roggenstein is an Outbound rock castle on the 570  m above sea level. NN high Roggenstein above the Untere Roggenmühle near Geislingen an der Steige in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built by Konrad von Roggenstein between 1150 and 1170 and abandoned around 1250. In 1281 a Konrad Ruggestain, citizen of Geislingen, was named.

Today's castle stable of the 15 by 30 meter castle complex still shows the neck ditch .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 1 - Northeast Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 207-210.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , p. 18.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lower rye mill at leo-bw.de
  2. ^ Entry on Roggenstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".