Sperberseck ruins
| Sperberseck ruins | ||
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_Kuppe_Sperberseck.jpg) View from the Donntal to the mountain spur on which the ruin is located |
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Two-part hilltop castle in a spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Construction: | Small cuboid and cuboid masonry | |
| Place: | Lenningen -Gutenberg | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 31 '16 " N , 9 ° 31' 17.8" E | |
| Height: | 728 m above sea level NN | |
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The Sperberseck ruins are the ruins of a spur castle south of the Gutenberg district of the municipality of Lenningen in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
Geographical location
The ruin is located in a forest between Böhringen and Donnstetten at 728 m above sea level. NN high mountain spur . The terrain on which the castle stood, sloping very steeply on three sides, takes up a relatively small area. The area of the ruin lies within the nature reserve Upper Lenninger Tal with side valleys .
history
The Hohenstaufen castle was built in the 12th century and has been the seat of the Lords of Sperberseck since 1140 . They were ministerials who were first in the Zähring , later in the Teck and then in the Württemberg service. In 1385 the castle received a castle chapel . But it was abandoned at the beginning of the 15th century and fell into disrepair.
description
Only remains of the wall and some excavated remains of the former castle have survived. For example, at the eastern end of the castle, facing the courtyard, a wall of the palace and on the west side basic or defensive walls . The freely accessible castle ruins are surrounded by a 3.1 meter thick outer shield wall that has also been preserved for around 17 meters . In front of them there is a first neck ditch and a second, even deeper ditch .
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . 2nd edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 571.
- Günter Schmitt : Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Volume 4: Alb Mitte − Nord - Hiking and discovering between Aichelberg and Reutlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1991, ISBN 3-924489-58-0 , pp. 163–168.
- Alexander Antonow: Castles of southwest Germany in the 13th and 14th centuries - with special consideration of the shield wall . Konkordia Verlag, Bühl / Baden 1977, ISBN 3-7826-0040-1 , pp. 249-251.
- 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 .
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ↑ See notice board on the castle ruins
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