Stauffenberg Castle

Stauffenberg Castle
Stauffenberg Castle (around 1681)
Creation time :	probably 12th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Hechingen - stone
Geographical location	48 ° 22 '18.4 "  N , 8 ° 54' 50.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '18.4 "  N , 8 ° 54' 50.2"  E
Height:	487  m above sea level NN

The Burg Stauffenberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on 487  m above sea level. NN above the confluence of the Zimmerbach in the Starzel about 2000 meters west of Stein , a district of Hechingen in the Zollernalbkreis ( Baden-Württemberg ). Lindich Castle is 900 meters to the southeast .

The castle was probably built in the 12th century by the Lords of Stauffenberg and was first mentioned in 1317 with the noble free von Stauffenberg. 1531 Klaus von Grafeneck is named as the owner, later the Counts of Zollern . The castle was destroyed in the 16th century.

The former castle complex had an 11 by 21 meter polygonal core castle , bounded by a moat . Today's Burgstall still shows the remains of moats and walls, as well as rubble.

literature

• Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 261-265.
• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Stauffenberg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".