Kranzberg Castle

Kranzberg Castle
	Kranzberg Castle on a foggy November morning
Alternative name (s):	Kransberg
Creation time :	around 1212
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Sulzbach-Laufen
Geographical location	48 ° 56 '58.7 " N , 9 ° 50' 49.9" E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '58.7 " N , 9 ° 50' 49.9" E
Height:	441.6 m above sea level NN

The Kranzberg Castle (also Veste Kransberg , formerly also Cranchs- or Cranichsberg ) is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 441.6 m above sea level. NN on the Kranzberg near the community Sulzbach-Laufen in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg .

A west loop of the Kocher lies around the Kranzberg in the valley , further east it is separated from the Limpurger Mountains by a 40 meter lower natural saddle .

The castle was built by the Counts of Öttingen in the first half of the 13th century and was first mentioned in 1212. In the middle of the 15th century the castle was destroyed in the city war.

The former castle complex with courtyard and outer bailey still shows the remains of the wall in late Romanesque designs. The keep , presumably a residential tower , had a floor space of around 13.5 by 13.5 meters and a wall thickness of 1.5 meters.

literature

Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 242-245.
Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 339.
Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolph Friedrich von Moser: Description of the Oberamt Gaildorf . JB Müller's Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1852, p. 169.

[1] Rudolph Friedrich von Moser: Description of the Oberamt Gaildorf . JB Müller's Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1852, p. 169.