Vohenstein Castle
Vohenstein Castle | |
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Coat of arms of the Knights of Vohenstein, around 1605, from Johann Siebmacher's book of arms |
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Creation time : | First mentioned in 1286 |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location |
Conservation status: | Burgstall |
Standing position : | Ministeriale, Imperial Knight |
Place: | Rosengarten -Vohenstein |
Geographical location | 49 ° 3 '4.1 " N , 9 ° 43' 32.1" E |
Height: | 325 m above sea level NN |
The castle Vohenstein is an Outbound hilltop castle at 325 m above sea level. NN above the hamlet of Vohenstein in the municipality of Rosengarten in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was the seat of a Limpurgic family of ministers named since 1286 , the Lords of Vohenstein . This was enrolled in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle and in the canton Kocher with the Swabian knight circle and expired in 1737 in the male line.
Today's castle stable still shows the castle hill and the neck moat . In 1561 the hamlet of Vohenstein was laid out under the castle.
See also: List of Swabian noble families
literature
- Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . ( Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 18). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 173-174.