Burgrest Sirgenstein
| Burgrest Sirgenstein | ||
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| Creation time : | 1200 to 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rock castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, remains of the wall | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid | |
| Place: | Blaubeuren hamlet | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 23 '15.4 " N , 9 ° 45' 36.7" E | |
| Height: | 614 m above sea level NN | |
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The Sirgenstein Castle is an Outbound rock castle high on a more than twenty meters rocks, the Sirgenstein at 614 m above sea level. NN with a Stone Age cave ( Sirgensteinhöhle ) between the towns of Blaubeuren -Weiler and Schelklingen in the Alb-Danube district in Baden-Württemberg .
From the castle, which was probably built in the 13th century, you can still see the remains of a wall, a humpback cuboid and the ditch .
literature
- Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 24-25.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon . Flechsig, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 567.
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 2: Alb Middle-South: Hiking and discovering between Ulm and Sigmaringen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1989, ISBN 3-924489-45-9 , pp. 75-78.
- Stefan Uhl: Schelklingen castles . (= Schelklinger Hefte . No. 18.) City Archives, Schelklingen 1991.
Web links
- Entry on Sirgenstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".