Hornberg Castle Stables

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Hornberg Castle Stables
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Place: Öhringen - Cappel- Hornberg
Geographical location 49 ° 11 '43.6 "  N , 9 ° 31' 34.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '43.6 "  N , 9 ° 31' 34.4"  E
Hornberg Castle Stables (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Hornberg Castle Stables

The Postal Hornberg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle near the town Öhringen in Hohenlohe in Baden-Wuerttemberg . It lies above the elevated southern bank of the Ohrnufer in the area of ​​today's Hornberg residential area in the Cappel district .

The local nobles named themselves after the castle. After the castle was abandoned at an unknown time, the hamlet of Hornberg developed from its farm yard.

The overbuilt castle stable still shows wall and moat remains .

literature

  • Hansjürgen Brachmann : The early medieval fortifications in Central Europe. Investigations into its development and function in the Germanic-German area (= writings on prehistory and early history. Vol. 45). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-001995-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hornberg at leo-bw
  2. ^ Entry on Wallburg Hornberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".