Luginsfeld castle ruins

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Luginsfeld castle ruins
The remains of Luginsfeld Castle

The remains of Luginsfeld Castle

Alternative name (s): Luginsfeld Castle
Creation time : 1000 to 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, valley edge location
Conservation status: ruin
Construction: Small ashlar masonry
Place: Tuttlingen
Geographical location 47 ° 59 '15.7 "  N , 8 ° 50' 10.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '15.7 "  N , 8 ° 50' 10.3"  E
Height: 785  m above sea level NN
Luginsfeld castle ruins (Baden-Württemberg)
Luginsfeld castle ruins

The Luginsfeld castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 785  m above sea level. NN 120 meters above the Danube valley , at the south-western tip of the Leutenberg 1500 meters east of the town church of Tuttlingen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

description

Remnants of the wall of the tower castle , which was built in the 11th to 13th centuries and surrounded by a double moat , were uncovered in the 20th century.

The castle area is about 20 by 14 meters. The square tower measures seven by seven meters with a wall thickness of 1.2 meters and is still 1.8 meters high.

The tower falls under the so-called “Luginsland Towers” ​​and was mainly used to monitor the area. Presumably the tower of the time had a wooden structure and a height of 30 meters.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Luginsfeld . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 341-344.
  • 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 , p. 107.

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