Burgstall Eselsburg (Michelbach am Wald)

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Burgstall Eselsburg
Alternative name (s): Alte Gabel Castle
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Öhringen - Michelbach am Wald
Geographical location 49 ° 9 '53.4 "  N , 9 ° 36' 33.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '53.4 "  N , 9 ° 36' 33.6"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NN

The Eselsburg even castle Old fork called, is a Outbound Spur castle on the "fork", a 460  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur above the Michelbachtal near the village of Michelbach am Wald (municipality of Öhringen ) in Hohenlohekreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The castle, whose origin and owner is unknown, presumably served as a guard station with a watchtower over the Michelbach valley. The Burgstall shows an approximately five by five meter square depression, which indicates a building foundation, lots of mortar remains, brick fragments and hewn foundation stones. Remnants of burned "folds" (clay and straw filling between the beams in half-timbered houses) point to a burned - down half-timbered building, as in Altgabelstein Castle .

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