Schwandorf castle ruins
Schwandorf castle ruins | ||
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Alternative name (s): | Schwandorf Castle, tower, Madach old castle | |
Creation time : | 1200 to 1300 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Standing position : | Nobles | |
Place: | Neuhausen ob Eck- Oberschwandorf | |
Geographical location | 47 ° 57 '27.1 " N , 8 ° 59' 4.6" E | |
Height: | 675 m above sea level NHN | |
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Castle remains Schwandorf , including Tower or Old Castle Madach called, refers to an Outbound hilltop castle at 675 m above sea level. NHN on a steep limestone rock on the southern edge of the Oberschwandorf district of the Neuhausen ob Eck community in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .
The former rock castle was probably built in the 13th century on a castle area of 280 square meters, was in ruins around 1600 and is considered destroyed from 1791. In 1588 the castle was named Altes Schloss Madach .
From 1260 to the beginning of the 15th century the Truchsessen von Schwandorf and 1460 Sygmund von Stein are named as owners of the castle .
Nothing is left of the former castle complex.
literature
- Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN 0178-3262 , pp. 85-86.