Ruin falcon

Ruin falcon
Creation time :	around 1140
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	small residues
Place:	Burladingen - "Falcons"
Geographical location	48 ° 17 '41.3 "  N , 9 ° 7' 56.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '41.3 "  N , 9 ° 7' 56.6"  E
Height:	840  m above sea level NN

The falcon ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 840  m above sea level. NN high falcon near the city of Burladingen in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was mentioned in 1140 as a double castle, the front (Großer Falken) and the rear Falkenburg (Kleiner Falken). The castle was one of several castles of the presumably noble lords of Burladingen ( Hohenburladingen Castle ). Only small remains of the former castle complex of the double castle have survived.

literature

• Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
• Günter Schmitt : Castles, palaces and ruins in the Zollernalb district . Published by the Zollernalbkreis district office, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6 , pp. 123-127.