Ehingerburg
| Ehingerburg | ||
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Bad Niedernau | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 26 '50 " N , 8 ° 54' 19" E | |
| Height: | 450 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Ehingerburg is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 450 m above sea level. NHN high "castle rocks" above the Katzenbachtal in Bad Niedernau , a district of Rottenburg am Neckar in the Tübingen district in Baden-Württemberg . There is also a second castle site just 150 meters away, but nothing is known about its history.
History of the castle
The castle, built after 1280, was once the residence of the imperial barons of Ehingen who named themselves after the place Ehingen, which is now part of the core town of Rottenburg am Neckar . The building was destroyed in 1407 during a feud with the Counts of Zollern . Nowadays only the foundation and a one meter high wall on the five to seven meter wide and 12 meter long castle hill on the south side remain.
literature
- Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , p. 57.
Web links
- Entry on Ehingerburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".