Tiefenbach Castle
| Tiefenbach Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | before 1423 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, tower foundation | |
| Place: | Hornberg - Reichenbach | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 11 '33 " N , 8 ° 15' 32.6" E | |
| Height: | 655 m above sea level NN | |
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The Tiefenbach Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 655 m above sea level. NN high rock outcrop at the Untertiefenbacher Hof in the Reichenbach district of the town of Hornberg in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built by the Lords of Hornberg and mentioned once in 1423. Two meter high wall remains of a square tower are still preserved from the former castle complex.
A second escort tower of the Hornbergs, Gutach Castle , is located on the Turmerberg near Gutach .
literature
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 46.
- Edith Reiss-Vasek: Althornberg . In: Die Ortenau : Journal of the Historical Association for Central Baden, Issue 21: Castles and Palaces of Central Baden . 1934, p. 465 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Karlleopold Hitzfeld : The castles at Hornberg . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 50th annual volume 1970, p. 377 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
- Hugo Schneider: The ruined tower in Tiefenbach . In the S. (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . The Ortenau: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Volume 64. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , p. 433 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwanenbach - living space. leo-bw.de , accessed on August 13, 2020 .