Schallon castle site

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Schallon castle site
Alternative name (s): Schallon Castle, Schanze
Creation time : around 1612
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Rietheim-Weilheim
Geographical location 48 ° 1 '43.3 "  N , 8 ° 49' 11.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '43.3 "  N , 8 ° 49' 11.6"  E
Height: 835  m above sea level NN
Schallon Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Schallon castle site

The Schallon castle , also known as the Schanze , is an abandoned hilltop castle at 835  m above sea level. NN on the "Stierjörgenfelsen" 3800 meters north of the church in Wurmlingen near the community of Rietheim-Weilheim in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

From the castle mentioned in the Gadner Atlas in 1612 , wall remains and a cellar were still preserved in 1604. Today nothing is left.

literature

  • Günter Schmitt : Altrietheim and Schallon Castle . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 321-324, here pp. 323f.