Wallenburg Castle

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Wallenburg Castle
Wallenburg Castle - View of the inner edge of the moat of the core castle

Wallenburg Castle - View of the inner edge of the moat of the core castle

Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, remains of walls and moat preserved
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Dürbheim
Geographical location 48 ° 2 '2 "  N , 8 ° 49' 24.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '2 "  N , 8 ° 49' 24.6"  E
Height: 840  m above sea level NN
Overview

The castle site Wallenburg refers to the ruins of a spur castle at 840  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur above the Ursental 3300 meters southeast of the church of the community Dürbheim in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle, built around 1200 on an area of ​​around 1200 square meters, was mentioned around 1500 and was owned by the nobles von Wallenburg. From the former two-part castle complex, only small remains of walls and moats have survived .

literature

  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 289-291.
  • Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian 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. 325–328.
  • State Surveying Office Baden-Württemberg and State Foreign Traffic Association Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Palaces, castles, churches, monasteries in Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart 1990.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 58 and 147.