Burgstall Lintburg

Burgstall Lintburg
Alternative name (s):	Limburg, Burgstall Attel
Creation time :	12th Century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Wasserburg am Inn - Limburg
Geographical location	48 ° 1 '53.1 "  N , 12 ° 10' 59.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '53.1 "  N , 12 ° 10' 59.3"  E
Height:	480  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Lintburg even Limburg or Postal Attel called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on 480  m above sea level. NHN 1000 meters north-northeast of the Attel Abbey above the Inn near Limburg , a district of the town of Wasserburg am Inn in the Rosenheim district in Bavaria .

The castle was built in the 12th century by the Counts of Attel as their ancestral seat. When the count family later moved their seat to the northeastern castle Wasserburg , Count Engelberg von Attel handed over Lintberg Castle to the Attel Abbey in 1137 .

literature

• Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 233 .

Web links

• Entry on Limburg (Lintburg) in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Meyer: Burgen in Oberbayern , p. 233.