Habsberg Castle Stables

Habsberg Castle Stables
	View of the Habsberg with the pilgrimage church and the overbuilt castle stable (April 2013)
Creation time :	11th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, cistern
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Velburg - Habsberg
Geographical location	49 ° 18 '48 " N , 11 ° 37' 55.3" E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '48 " N , 11 ° 37' 55.3" E
Height:	621 m above sea level NN

The Habsberg Castle Stable refers to an abandoned hilltop castle at 621 m above sea level. NN high Habsberg instead of today's pilgrimage church Maria, Heil der Kranken about 1500 meters south-southeast of the town of the same name Habsberg, a district of the city of Velburg in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

The castle was built in the 11th century by the Counts of Sulzbach - Kastl-Habsberg and destroyed in the 14th century.

After the pilgrimage church was built, only a cistern remains from the former castle .

literature

Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , pp. 39–40.
Sixtus Lampl: Upper Palatinate (= monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments . Volume III ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 .