Seeburg Castle (Bad Urach)
| Seeburg Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, small remains of the wall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Construction: | Small ashlar masonry | |
| Place: | Bad Urach - Seeburg | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 26 '45.3 " N , 9 ° 27' 24.9" E | |
| Height: | 630 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Seeburg is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 630 m above sea level. NN high castle hill of the Seeburg district of the city of Bad Urach in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
history
The castle, an Alemannic fortification, was probably built before 1150 by the Lords of Seeburg (Count Wigmann von Seburc) and in 1228 a Bertoldus de Sebure was mentioned. In 1556 Hans Ludwig von Speth sold the "Burgstatt Seeburc" to Duke Christoph von Württemberg and around 1562 the castle fell into disrepair after being destroyed. Small remains of the wall have been preserved from the former castle.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 4 - Alb Mitte-Nord: Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 247-252.
- 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 .
Web links
- Seeburg at badurach.de
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun