Zwingenburg Castle
Zwingenburg Castle | ||
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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 | |
Height: | 603 m above sea level NN | |
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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)