Zipplingen Castle

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Zipplingen Castle
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.

literature

  • 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

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