Bebenburg ruins

Bebenburg ruins
The stump of the keep
Alternative name (s):	Bemburg
Creation time :	around 1140
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Keep stump
Standing position :	Nobles, counts
Place:	Rot am See -Bemberg
Geographical location	49 ° 15 '31 "  N , 9 ° 59' 23.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '31 "  N , 9 ° 59' 23.8"  E
Height:	426.6  m above sea level NN

The ruin Bebenburg , also called Bemburg , is the ruin of a spur castle on the foothills of a high plateau near the hamlet of Bemberg in the district of Brettenfeld in the municipality of Rot am See in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The Bebenburg stands at 426.6  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur above the mouth of the Blaubach in the Brettach , on the western outskirts of Bemberg.

history

The castle was built around 1140 by the knights of Bebenburg and mentioned around 1140. The castle was probably destroyed in the city ​​war around 1449 . The castle was owned by noble free von Bebenburg, a branch line of the lords of Nordenberg and burgraves, and from 1440 the von Enslingen family .

description

Probably it concerned with the small castle is a tower castle , which still 6 meter high stump of the keep served on a footprint of 7.5 x 7.5 meters as a watchtower. The castle was protected by a surrounding wall, the steeply sloping terrain and a ditch .

See also

• Lupold von Bebenburg

literature

• Alois Schneider: The castles in the Schwäbisch Hall district - an inventory . ( Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 18). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1228-7 , pp. 174-177.

Web links

• Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bebenburg on brettenfeld.de
2. ^ Felix Priebatsch: Elector Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg , Volume 59 of: Publications from the k. Prussian State Archives , Volume 59, Berlin, 1894, p. 478; (Detail scan)