Urhausen Castle

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Urhausen Castle
Creation time : around 1228
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Schöntal - Bieringen
Geographical location 49 ° 21 '31.6 "  N , 9 ° 32' 26.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '31.6 "  N , 9 ° 32' 26.7"  E
Height: 245  m above sea level NN
Urhausen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Urhausen Castle

The castle Urhausen is an Outbound hilltop castle ( tower castle ) at 245  m above sea level. NN in the area of ​​the Urhausen desert on the northern border of the Bieringen mark and today's district of Bieringen in the community of Schöntal in Hohenlohekreis in Baden-Württemberg .

After the Lords of Boxberg were named as owners in 1228, the Lords of Urhausen were named from 1308 to 1505. In 1434 the castle complex was named Burgstall after several changes of ownership and passed to the Lords of Aschhausen.

literature

  • Sophie Stelzle-Hüglin, Michael Strobel, Andreas Thiel, Inken Vogt (arrangement): Archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg . New edition. Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office and the Baden-Württemberg State Surveying Office, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89021-717-6 , p. 272.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urhausen Castle at leo-bw