Luginsfeld castle ruins
Luginsfeld castle ruins | ||
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The remains of Luginsfeld Castle |
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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 | |
Height: | 785 m above sea level NN | |
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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.