Ullenburg
| Ullenburg | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1070 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Clericals, nobles | |
| Place: | Oberkirch zoo | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 33 '21.2 " N , 8 ° 4' 22.4" E | |
| Height: | 285.3 m above sea level NN | |
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The Ullenburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 285.3 m above sea level. NN high Schlossberg south of the Tiergarten district of the city of Oberkirch in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was mentioned in 1070, expanded in the 15th century, destroyed in 1689 and demolished in 1785. The castle was owned by the bishops of Strasbourg and the von Botzheim family . After the Thirty Years' War , Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen , the author of Simplicissimus , lived as the castle administrator.
Remnants of the curtain wall are still preserved from the former castle complex .
literature
- Hugo Schneider (Ed.): The Ullenburg . In: Ders .: Castles and palaces in central Baden . Verlag Historischer Verein für Mittelbaden, Offenburg 1984, pp. 196–202.
- Kurt Klein: Castles, palaces and ruins - witnesses of the past in the Ortenau district . Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag, Offenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922663-47-8 , pp. 79-80.