Lenensburg

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Lenensburg
Main castle

Main castle

Alternative name (s): Lehnensburg
Creation time : Hallstatt fortifications, built over in the early / high Middle Ages
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Kressbronn am Bodensee - Betznau
Geographical location 47 ° 37 '19.3 "  N , 9 ° 36' 16.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '19.3 "  N , 9 ° 36' 16.6"  E
Height: 488  m above sea level NN
Lenensburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Lenensburg

The Lenensburg is an Outbound hilltop castle at 488  m above sea level. NN on a steep on all sides Drumlin on the Argen , northeast of Betznau , in the municipality of Kressbronn on Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg Bodenseekreis .

The complex is divided into a bailey and a main castle , which are separated from each other by a still preserved moat . By digging a are pit house with hearth and Hallstatt groups such as shards and bones, etc. demonstrated. To the west of the complex there are indications of a wood-earth wall.

history

The mine house and the shape visible today are dated to the late Merovingian - Carolingian period. The castle was first mentioned as an Entinesburugo in 769 , when a Scalcomann gave it to the St. Gallen monastery . 1468 is in a Urbar a Lennispurg above, 1746 is the name of Lean Burg detected.

See also

literature

  • Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district . Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (=  Fund reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14 ). 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-510-49114-9 .

Web links

Commons : Lenensburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district . Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (=  Fund reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14 ). 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-510-49114-9 , pp. 575-578 .