Aichelberg castle ruins (Aichelberg)

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Aichelberg castle ruins
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: small wall remains, neck ditch, rampart
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Aichelberg
Geographical location 48 ° 38 '6.3 "  N , 9 ° 34' 15.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '6.3 "  N , 9 ° 34' 15.1"  E
Height: 564.2  m above sea level NN
Aichelberg castle ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Aichelberg castle ruins

The Aichelberg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle southeast of Aichelberg in the Göppingen district in Baden-Württemberg . It was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Aichelberg .

Geographical location

The castle is located above the village at 564.2  m above sea level. NN high peak of the eponymous Aichelberg, a mountain in the Swabian Alb . Above the ruins is the Turmberg Castle , built on the Turmberg in 1210, above the town of Aichelberg of the same name. Both Aichelberg and Turmberg are modeled remains of former volcanic chimneys of the Swabian volcano .

history

Aichelberg Castle was built between 1150 and 1200 by the Lords of Aichelberg; in 1334 it came into the possession of the Counts of Württemberg . In 1525 the castle was looted and destroyed in the Peasants' War. After 1525 the ruins were used as a quarry, until 1596 essential parts of the building were demolished.

description

The oval castle area with a long spur to the northeast was protected by a ditch . Remains of the wall and the neck ditch as well as small remains of the masonry can still be seen from the former complex. The castle site, which is freely accessible today, has an area of ​​around 32 by 13 meters.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1: Nordost-Alb - hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Verlag Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 327-332.
  • Sophie Stelzle-Hüglin, Michael Strobel, Andreas Thiel, Inken Vogt (arrangement): Archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office and the Baden-Württemberg State Surveying Office, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89021-717-6 , p. 12.

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