Löwenburg (Braunsbach)

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Löwenburg
Alternative name (s): Löwenberg
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, trench remains
Place: Braunsbach - Geislingen
Geographical location 49 ° 9 '46.3 "  N , 9 ° 47' 26.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '46.3 "  N , 9 ° 47' 26.4"  E
Height: 390  m above sea level NN

The Löwenburg , also known as Löwenberg , is an abandoned spur castle at 390  m above sea level. NN on a rocky spur at the confluence of the digester and the Buehler , less than a kilometer south-southeast of the district of Geislingen the community Braunbach in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Of the former castle, probably from the Staufer period , only a mound of rubble, in which a small recessed square can be seen, and the remains of the neck ditch have been preserved.

literature

  • Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , p. 43.