Zipplingen Castle
Zipplingen Castle | |
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Creation time : | First mentioned in 1153 |
Castle type : | not clear |
Conservation status: | departed |
Standing position : | Ministeriale |
Place: | Unterschneidheim - Zipplingen |
The castle Zipplingen is an Outbound castle in the district Zipplingen the town of Unterschneidheim in Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The castle, first mentioned in 1153, was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Zipplingen , also known as the Foxes of Zipplingen . These were ministerials of the empire, later the Counts of Oettingen . Well-known members of this lower nobility family were Heinrich I von Zipplingen and Heinrich von Zipplingen . A Friedrich von Zipplingen was abbot of the Neresheim monastery from 1287 to 1308 .
Nothing has been preserved from the castle complex, which can no longer be localized.
Coat of arms after the New Siebmacher (1911)
Family coat of arms of the von Zipplingen after the Scheibler coat of arms book
literature
Wikisource: Formerly independent municipality Zipplingen in the description of the Oberamt Ellwangen from 1886 - sources and full texts
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (Ed.): Baden-Württemberg. Handbook of Historic Places in Germany 6, Stuttgart 1980
- Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.): Nördlingen - Bopfingen - Oettingen - Harburg - Part II: Excursions. Guide to prehistoric and protohistoric monuments 41, Mainz 1979
Web links
- Zipplingen with castle on LEO-BW
- Entry on Zipplingen Castle in the private database "All Castles".