Tunsel Castle

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Tunsel Castle
Creation time : around 1256
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Bad Krozingen - Tunsel
Geographical location 47 ° 54 '30.6 "  N , 7 ° 39' 51.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '30.6 "  N , 7 ° 39' 51.1"  E
Height: 240  m above sea level NN

The castle Tunsel is an Outbound hilltop castle on a 240  m above sea level. NN high Rebhügel in the northwest of the Tunsel district of the city of Bad Krozingen in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built in the 13th century by the Lords of Tonsul and was mentioned in 1256. Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex.

literature

  • Horst Wolfgang Böhme (Hrsg.): Castles of the Salierzeit part 1 and 2 . Publications for the exhibition "The Salians and their empire". Monograph of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, research institute for prehistory and early history. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991. ISBN 3-7995-4134-9