Salzbühl Castle

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Burgstall on the Salzbühl
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Cuboid and small cuboid masonry
Place: Bernstadt
Geographical location 48 ° 31 '4.5 "  N , 10 ° 2' 5.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '4.5 "  N , 10 ° 2' 5.9"  E
Height: 536  m above sea level NN
Salzbühl Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Salzbühl Castle

The Postal on the Salzbühl is an Outbound Spur castle on a 536  m above sea level. NN high cliffs above the Salzbühl Cave near the municipality of Bernstadt in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle, which was probably built by the Lords of Bernstadt in the 12th century, was destroyed around 1300. Only small remains of the moat and the ramparts of the former castle complex can be seen.

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literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 6: Ostalb - hiking and discovering between Ulm, Aalen and Donauwörth . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1995, ISBN 3-924489-74-2 , pp. 409-411.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 16-17.