Runder Berg Castle

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Runder Berg Castle
Creation time : 600 to 700
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Bad Urach
Geographical location 48 ° 29 '23.6 "  N , 9 ° 21' 53.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '23.6 "  N , 9 ° 21' 53.3"  E
Height: 710  m above sea level NHN
Runder Berg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Runder Berg Castle

The Castle Round Mountain is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a mountain peak at about 710 m above mean sea level of the rounds mountain 2,500 meters west of the city of Bad Urach in the district of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle is an early medieval hill fort in connection with an Alemannic hill settlement on a summit plateau 120 meters long and a maximum of 40 meters wide. From 1967 to 1984 remains of two fortification walls were excavated from the former fortification.

literature

  • Archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1990

Web links

  • Entry on Runder Berg in the private database "Alle Burgen".