Mörburg
| Mörburg | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Merburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1129 | |
| Castle type : | Moated castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Schutterwald courtyards | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 26 '30.5 " N , 7 ° 51' 54.3" E | |
| Height: | 150 m above sea level NN | |
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The Mörburg even Merburg called, is a Outbound Wasserburg at 150 m above sea level. NN west of the district Höfen of the community Schutterwald in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built at the beginning of the 12th century by the lords of Geroldseck , mentioned in 1129 and destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The other owners were the lords of Böcklin and the lords of Nassau-Saar Werden . In 1882 the castle hill was leveled. Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex.
literature
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , pp. 104-105.
- Hugo Schneider, Hermann Braunstein: The Mörburg near Schutterwald . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Castles and palaces in central Baden . Series of publications: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden , Volume 64. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, ISSN 0342-1503 , pp. 293-294 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).