Döttingen Castle

Döttingen Castle
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Creation time :	1584 Palace construction
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	lock
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Braunsbach -Döttingen
Geographical location	49 ° 13 '14.5 "  N , 9 ° 46' 18.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '14.5 "  N , 9 ° 46' 18.5"  E

The Schloss Döttingen is an Outbound Wasserburg and later castle in Döttingen (Buchsteige 2), in the municipality of Braunsbach in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

1584 castle of the Lords of Bachstein, probably a successor system was already in 1488 destroyed its castle Bachstein , Count Friedrich zu Hohenlohe to a renaissance - castle with Baroque forms rebuilt. In 1781 the north wing was enlarged and rebuilt. In the west wing there is a simple arcade on two floors . In 1911, after the south wing was demolished, only the east and north walls remained. The castle has been in civil ownership since 1836, was renovated from 1959 to 1961 and is now a hotel.

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. 39-41.
• Georg Dehio , Dagmar Zimdars: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Baden-Württemberg I: Districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe , Munich 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Döttingen at leo-bw.de
2. ↑ Döttingen Castle at burgen-und-schloesser.net
3. ^ Entry on Döttingen in the private database "Alle Burgen".