Zillenhart Castle

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Zillenhart Castle
Creation time : probably around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministerialenburg
Place: Schlat- Zillenhart
Geographical location 48 ° 39 '32 "  N , 9 ° 41' 16.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '32 "  N , 9 ° 41' 16.9"  E
Height: 425.6  m above sea level NN
Zillenhart Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Zillenhart Castle

The castle Zillenhart is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 425.6  m above sea level. NN high "Schlossbuckel" near the Zillenhart desert of the Schlat community in the Göppingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Coat of arms of the Lords of Zillenhart after Gustav Adelbert Seyler

The castle was the ancestral seat of the nobles von Zillenhart, who were former servants of the Counts of Helfenstein , and was named in 1241 with the help of the vassal Syfried von Zillenhart. The castle was destroyed as early as 1604. The castle stable only shows traces of the terrain from ramparts and ditches .

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Zillenhart (Züllenhart) . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 - Nordost-Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 309-313.

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