Trochtelfingen Castle
| Trochtelfingen Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Old castle | |
| Creation time : | 1100 to 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Castle chapel, wall, moat | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Trochtelfingen | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 18 '58.5 " N , 9 ° 14' 46.3" E | |
| Height: | 779 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Trochtelfingen , even Alteburg called, is one of the remains of a hilltop castle on 779 m above sea level. NN north of the city of Trochtelfingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built in the first half of the 12th century by the lords of Trochtelfingen as their ancestral seat within a prehistoric complex. In 1660 a castle chapel , the Lady Chapel, was built. Of the former castle complex with a rectangular core castle measuring 9 by 26 meters , only the ramparts, the moat and the Marienkapelle remain.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb. Volume 5 • West Alb. Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , pp. 59-70.
- Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 151-152.