Ruin mountain
| Ruin mountain | ||
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| Creation time : | 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, mountain corner | |
| Conservation status: | Remnants of the curtain wall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Stuttgart mountain | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 47 '48 " N , 9 ° 12' 38" E | |
| Height: | 220 m above sea level NN | |
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The Berg ruins are the remains of a hilltop castle in the urban area of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The castle was on a mountain tongue about 220 meters above sea level . In its place stands today the Berger Church , Klotzstrasse, in the Stuttgart-Berg district .
history
The castle was built in the 12th century by the lords of Berg as their ancestral seat. The oldest surviving mention comes from the first half of the 13th century. The castle was destroyed in 1291.
buildings
Remnants of the curtain wall have been preserved. They served as church walls since 1311. In the middle of the northern curtain wall was a residential tower measuring 9.5 by 10.5 meters and a wall thickness of around 1.2 meters.
Worth knowing
In addition to this castle complex, the Berg water castle still existed in the village. It stood in the area of the Berg mineral bath , during the construction of which the foundation walls of a square residential tower were found.
literature
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 98.
- Gerhard Wein: The medieval castles in the area of the city of Stuttgart, Volume 2: The castles in the districts of Solitude, Feuerbach, Cannstatt, Berg and Gaisburg . Stuttgart 1971.
- Hartwig Zürn : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments and the medieval castle sites of the Stuttgart city district and the Böblingen, Esslingen and Nürtingen districts . Verlag Silberburg, Stuttgart 1956, p. 8.