Lomersheim castle ruins
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| Alternative name (s): | Rotenburg, Burgstumpen Lomersheim |
| Creation time : | 11th to 12th centuries |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location |
| Conservation status: | ruin |
| Standing position : | Lower nobility |
| Place: | Mühlacker |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 55 '54.5 " N , 8 ° 51' 40.4" E |
| Height: | 230 m above sea level NN |
The castle ruin Lomersheim , also known as Rotenburg or Burgstumpen Lomersheim , is the ruin of a spur castle on a south-west facing 230 m above sea level. NN high spur of the northern Enz Valley slope above the district of Lomersheim (Turmstrasse-Burggraben) in the municipality of Mühlacker in the Enzkreis ( Baden-Württemberg ).
The castle was built around the 11th to 12th centuries by the lords of Lomersheim, attested from 1147 to 1634, who were followers of the Counts of Vaihingen. The castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 and the tower was blown up in 1817. Today, the castle ruins still show the stump of the residential tower and the remains of the side walls leading down to the village.
literature
- Wolfgang Willig: Landadel palaces in Baden-Württemberg - A cultural-historical search for traces . Self-published by Willig, Balingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813887-0-1 , p. 336.
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lomersheim at leo-bw.de
- ^ Entry on Lomersheim Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".