Burgstall Stetten

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Burgstall Stetten
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Local nobility
Place: Frankenhardt- Stetten
Geographical location 49 ° 5 '3.6 "  N , 10 ° 0' 30.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '3.6 "  N , 10 ° 0' 30.2"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Stetten (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Burgstall Stetten

The Postal Stetten is an Outbound hilltop castle on 460  m above sea level. NN in the "Schwindhalde" corridor east of the Frankenhardt district of Stetten in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was the seat of the Knights of Stetten, probably a branch of the Knights of Kocherstetten. In 1377 the castle had already gone.

Wall and moat remains from the former castle complex have been preserved.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . ( Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 18). Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 102-103.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stetten at leo-bw.de
  2. ↑ Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory , p. 102