Burgstall Wilburg

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Burgstall Wilburg
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Wilburgstetten
Geographical location 49 ° 1 '55.4 "  N , 10 ° 23' 29"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '55.4 "  N , 10 ° 23' 29"  E
Burgstall Wilburg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Wilburg

The Burgstall Wilburg is an abandoned medieval low castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) about 230 meters northwest of the church in Wilburgstetten in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria .

The castle was the seat of a branch of the von Rechenberg family and gave the community its name. Wilburg Castle and the Limburg Fortress further north secured the transition of the old Reichsstraße from Dinkelsbühl over the Wörnitz to Nördlingen and further south.

Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex, the outer castle hill was leveled in 1875.

literature

  • August Gebeßler : City and district of Dinkelsbühl (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 15 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1962, DNB  451450930 , p. 229 .
  • Hans Wolfram Lübbecke (arrangement): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments : Volume V Middle Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). Munich 1985

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