Hohenstein castle ruins (Hohenstadt)

Hohenstein castle ruins
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle hill, neck moat
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Schwäbisch Hall -Hohenstadt
Geographical location	49 ° 6 '53.8 "  N , 9 ° 51' 44.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '53.8 "  N , 9 ° 51' 44.8"  E
Height:	372.8  m above sea level NN

The Hohenstein castle ruin is an abandoned spur castle in the Hohenstadt district of the city of Schwäbisch Hall in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle was built by the Lords of Hohenstein and was first mentioned in 1334. A Kraft von Hohenlohe is named as the later owner . In the middle of the 14th century the castle was destroyed.

investment

From the hilltop castle at 372.8  m above sea level. NN high spur west over a loop of the Bühler valley between the hamlet of Hohenstadt on the Haller level and the Mühlenweiler Neunbronn in the valley is a deep ditch and a few meters high castle hill, which drops over a field wall perpendicular to the downward loop of the valley.

literature

• Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district. An inventory (= research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 18). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 225-227.