Spaltfels Castle

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Spaltfels Castle
Castle rock northeast of the Beuron Monastery

Castle rock northeast of the Beuron Monastery

Creation time : probably 12th or 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Irndorf
Geographical location 48 ° 3 '19.8 "  N , 8 ° 58' 29.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '19.8 "  N , 8 ° 58' 29.6"  E
Height: 750  m above sea level NN
Spaltfels Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Spaltfels Castle

The Castle Rock gap is an Outbound Spur castle at the beginning of a long drawn rugged rocky ridge, the gap rock on 750  meters above sea level. NN high above the Danube about 1200 meters south of the municipality of Irndorf in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

description

Apart from the neck ditch facing north, nothing has been preserved of the former castle complex on a rectangular rock plateau . The castle complex had a length of about 60 meters, a width of about 35 meters and an internal area of ​​about 2000 square meters.

literature

  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 79 and 146.

Web links

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