Waldstetten Castle

Waldstetten Castle
The castle stood on the mountain spur called Eichhölzle (left in the picture) southeast of the center of Waldstetten.
Creation time :	Probably 13th or 14th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, remains of the neck ditch
Place:	Waldstetten - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location	48 ° 45 '47.4 "  N , 9 ° 49' 26.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '47.4 "  N , 9 ° 49' 26.9"  E
Height:	436  m above sea level NHN

The Burgwald Stetten is an Outbound Spur castle on the "Schlossberg" at 436  m above sea level. NHN immediately west of the Eichhölzle farmyard near Waldstetten in the Ostalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle around which the dominion of Waldstetten was formed was probably built by the Lords of Rechberg during the 13th or 14th century, destroyed by the imperial cities on September 1, 1449 in the course of the southern German city war and not rebuilt. Remnants of a moat are still preserved from the former castle complex .

literature

• Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 1 - Northeast Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 43–47.
• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .

Web links

• Waldstetten at "leo-bw.de"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 - Nordost-Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg , p. 45 ff.
2. ^ Entry on Waldstetten Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".