Vohenstein Castle

Vohenstein Castle
	Coat of arms of the Knights of Vohenstein, around 1605, from Johann Siebmacher's book of arms
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 Coordinates: 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.

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.