Zwingenburg Castle

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Zwingenburg Castle
Creation time : 11th to 12th centuries
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, castle hill, moat, wall remains
Place: Owingen - Billafingen
Geographical location 47 ° 49 '57.1 "  N , 9 ° 6' 48.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '57.1 "  N , 9 ° 6' 48.9"  E
Height: 603  m above sea level NN
Zwingenburg Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Zwingenburg Castle

The castle Force Castle is an Outbound hilltop castle on an elongated mountain ridge about 1700 meters west of the church in Billafingen , a modern district of the municipality Owingen in Bodensee district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was built in the second half of the 11th century or in the 12th century and was mentioned in 1504.

Of the former castle complex on a castle hill plateau of around 53 by 12 to 14 meters, only the castle hill, the moat and the remains of the wall are preserved.

Individual evidence

  • Location according to the historical map:
    • Measuring table sheet [8120]: Stockach, 1880 Stockach. - [edition] 1879 a. 1880. - 1: 25000. - Leipzig: Giesecke & Devrient, 1880
    • online excerpt: kartenforum.slub-dresden

Web links

  • Entry on Castle Zwingenburg in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  • District Billafigen near Leo-bw.de
  • Theodor Lachmann: The Zwingenburg near Billafingen. In: Anton Birlinger (Ed.): Überlinger Sagen. In: Alemannia , Volume XVIII. Peter Hanstein, 1890, pp. 179–181 (Wikisource)