Bebenburg ruins
Bebenburg ruins | ||
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The stump of the keep |
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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 | |
Height: | 426.6 m above sea level NN | |
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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
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
- ↑ Bebenburg on brettenfeld.de
- ^ 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)