Burgstall Hunnenburg

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Burgstall Hunnenburg
Alternative name (s): Altenburg, Hennenburg
Creation time : probably 11th century, first mentioned in 1415
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: cake
Geographical location 48 ° 38 '25.6 "  N , 9 ° 46' 14.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '25.6 "  N , 9 ° 46' 14.6"  E
Height: 591  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Hunnenburg (Baden-Württemberg)
Burgstall Hunnenburg

Postal Huns castle , formerly Altenburg or Henn Burg called, refers to an Outbound Höhenburg ( Hünenburg ) on a 591  m above sea level. NN high summit south of the community of Kuchen in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg .

The name Hunnenburg could go back to a Hunno, chairman of a Franconian hundred. It was built as a wooden castle in the 11th century and abandoned early on and is mentioned in 1415 in the Helfensteinisches Salbuch as "Altenburg".

The castle stables of the former ring wall system today only shows a neck ditch , traces of terrain with little wall remains and rubble .

According to a folk tale, a magnificent castle is said to have stood here and because of the nefarious life of the residents, the castle suddenly sank into the earth .

literature

  • Stälin, CF: The Hunnenburg . In: Description of the Oberamt Geislingen . 1842.
  • Isidor Fischer: Castles and noble families in the Geislingen district . In: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Reform Realprogymnasium and the Realschule Geislingen . 1929.
  • Hartwig Zürn : Cake . In: The prehistoric site monuments and the medieval castle sites in the districts of Göppingen and Ulm . 1961.
  • Hugo Heinkel: The Hunnenburg . In: The market town of cake . 1978, p. 22.
  • Günter Schmitt : Hunnenburg . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 - Nordost-Alb: Hiking and discovering between Aalen and Aichelberg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4 , pp. 263-266.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 1 , p. 265

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