Hohengutenberg ruins
Hohengutenberg ruins | ||
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Alternative name (s): | Gutenberg | |
Creation time : | around 1200 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Standing position : | Nobles, dukes, counts | |
Construction: | Small ashlar masonry | |
Place: | Lenningen -Gutenberg | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 32 '8.9 " N , 9 ° 31' 6.2" E | |
Height: | 592 m above sea level NN | |
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The Hohengutenberg ruin , also just called Gutenberg , is an abandoned spur castle north above the Gutenberg district of the municipality of Lenningen in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The former hilltop castle is located on a long 592 m above sea level. NN high spur about 400 meters from the ruins of Wuelstein .
history
The castle was built around 1200, first mentioned in 1285 and destroyed in 1583 or burned down in 1589. The dukes of Teck , the lords of Gutenberg, the counts of Württemberg (1385) and the lords of Baldeck are named as owners of the castle . It was probably another satellite castle that was built around Teck Castle .
description
The freely accessible castle complex, of which only a few remains can be seen, is divided into three sections and two outer castles . The inner bailey measures around 14 by 44 meters, the south bailey about 26 by 8 meters and the north 23 by 24 meters. The curtain wall was about 1.2 meters thick. There are no remains of the St. Elisabeth castle chapel .
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 4 - Alb Mitte-Nord: Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 157-162.
- 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 .