Leimburg castle ruins

Leimburg castle ruins
Alternative name (s):	Leimberg Castle
Creation time :	around 1180
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles, clericals
Place:	Gruibingen
Geographical location	48 ° 35 '58.3 "  N , 9 ° 40' 35.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '58.3 "  N , 9 ° 40' 35.1"  E
Height:	704.7  m above sea level NN

The Leimburg castle ruins , also known as Leimberg , are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the Gruibingen district at 704.4  m above sea level. NN above Auendorf, a district of Bad Ditzenbach , in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg . The ruin is located on the 705 meter high Lower Leimberg .

The small castle with a residential tower and shield wall , built in the 12th century by the knights of Leimberg, who presumably came from the local nobility of Gosbach, was first mentioned in 1180, was later owned by the Ursberg monastery and was destroyed in 1533. There are still a few remains of the walls of the castle.

literature

• Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1: Nordost-Alb - hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 297-302.
• Konrad Albert Koch and Kirschmer: "The Leimburg near Auendorf". In Schwäbischer Albverein (Ed.): Pages of the Schwäbischer Albverein No. 1/2 1916, Sp. 9-14

Web links

• Medieval castles and aristocratic residences in the district of Göppingen ( Memento from April 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )