Burgstall Gattenhofen

Burgstall Gattenhofen
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, tower foundation
Construction:	Brocken cuboid
Place:	Steinsfeld - Gattenhofen - "Steinbachtal"
Geographical location	49 ° 24 '23.2 " N , 10 ° 10' 34.2" E Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '23.2 " N , 10 ° 10' 34.2" E
Height:	410 m above sea level NHN

The Postal husband Hofen is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on 410 m above sea level. NHN above the Steinbachtal about 1950 meters southwest of the church in Gattenhofen , a current part of the municipality of Steinsfeld in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach in Bavaria .

The foundations of a square tower made of Brocken blocks and the remains of a neck ditch still bear witness to the former castle complex .

literature

Hans Wolfram Lübbecke (arrangement): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments : Volume V Middle Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). Munich 1985.
Hans Karlmann Ramisch: District of Rothenburg ob der Tauber (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 25 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, DNB 457879254 , p. 38 .