Rauenburg
| Rauenburg | |
|---|---|
| Alternative name (s): | Ruwenberg, Rauwenburg |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle |
| Conservation status: | departed |
| Place: | Ettenheim - Ettenheim Minster |
The Rauenburg , also called Ruwenberg or Rauwenburg , is a lost hilltop castle east of the Ettenheimmünster district of the city of Ettenheim in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was possibly on the 540.9 meters high Raubühl ( 48 ° 12 '27.6 " N , 7 ° 56' 22.9" O ) , which at the place Pflingstberg to the district Schweighausen the municipality Schuttertal belongs. The castle was mentioned in 1467 and 1481 in the feudal possession of the Lords of Geroldseck , in 1605 it is described as "located in the box vogtei Ettenheimmünster ". Nothing has been preserved from the castle complex, which cannot be precisely located.
Caution: In the case of written sources, there is a possibility of confusion with the Romburg (Rumberg, Romberg, Ronburg, Ruwenberg), which was also in the possession of the von Geroldseck family.
literature
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , p. 19.
- Hubert Kewitz: The Rauenburg . In: Hugo Schneider (Ed.): Burgen und Schlösser in Mittelbaden , The Ortenau : Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Volume 64. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, p. 375 ( digitized version of the Freiburg University Library ).