Castle remains of the Burgstallhöhle

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Castle remains of the Burgstallhöhle
Burgstall Stein 17, Danube Valley.JPG
Alternative name (s): Burgstallhöhle
Castle type : Höhenburg, cave castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, cave
Place: Fridingen on the Danube
Geographical location 48 ° 1 '0.6 "  N , 8 ° 56' 53.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '0.6 "  N , 8 ° 56' 53.5"  E
Height: 730  m above sea level NN

Castle remnants Postal cave , even as Postal cave called, refers to an Outbound Höhlenburg on a rocky slope at 730  m above sea level. NN left of the Danube , downstream from Fridingen an der Donau in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

Only traces of the castle, built in the 11th century, are left on the rock of the cave.

literature

  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 299-302.
  • Günter Schmitt : Burgstall stone and Burgstall cave . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 253-260.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , pp. 122-125.

  • Beam hole

  • View from the main cave