Burgstall Wüstenau

Burgstall Wüstenau
Creation time :	around 1251
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Kreßberg -Wüstenau- "Schlossberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 8 '59.5 "  N , 10 ° 10' 33"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '59.5 "  N , 10 ° 10' 33"  E
Height:	515  m above sea level NN

The Postal Wüstenau is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 515  m above sea level. NN high "Schlossberg" near today's residential area Wüstenau of the community Kreßberg in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle, probably built around 1251 on the "Burgberg" named in 1466, may have been owned by feudal people (1251–1305) of the Counts of Flügelau . The castle hill ( earthwork ) and a remains of a neck moat are still preserved from the former castle complex .

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 , 143.

Web links

• Entry on Wüstenau Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wüstenau at leo-bw.de