Burgstall Burgberg

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Burgstall Burgberg
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, ring wall
Place: Frankenhardt -Oberspeltach- "Burgberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 7 '14.9 "  N , 9 ° 58' 28.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '14.9 "  N , 9 ° 58' 28.9"  E
Height: 534  m above sea level NN
Burgberg Castle Stable (Baden-Württemberg)
Burgstall Burgberg

The Postal Castle Hill is an Outbound Celtic ring wall on the 534  m above sea level. NN high castle hill 1.9 kilometers north-northwest of the village of Oberspeltach in the community of Frankenhardt in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle stable of the Höhenburg comprises a longitudinally elliptical, west-east oriented and flat open plateau on a predominantly forest-free hilltop in the middle of the extensive Burgberg forest as well as leveled ditches and flattened ramparts of formerly at least two circumferential rings on the slope. Later a chapel was located at this highest point of the Einkorn Forest for over two centuries.

Todays use

At the eastern tip of the plateau are the Burgberg tower, which can be seen from afar, and a restaurant belonging to a hiking club. Four hiking trails converge on the mountain and a cycle path surrounds it.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 100-102.

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