Volksburg (stone)

Volksburg
Alternative name (s):	Stein, Musburg, Miesburg
Creation time :	probably 12th or 13th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, valley edge location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, remains of the wall
Place:	Hechingen - stone
Geographical location	48 ° 22 '15.9 "  N , 8 ° 55' 55.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '15.9 "  N , 8 ° 55' 55.3"  E
Height:	485  m above sea level NN

The Volksburg , also known as Stein , Musburg or Miesburg , is an abandoned medieval hilltop castle at 485  m above sea level. NN above the left bank of the Starzel 750 meters west of Stein , a district of Hechingen in the Zollernalbkreis ( Baden-Württemberg ).

The castle could have been founded as a people's castle in the Middle Ages within a prehistoric rampart . The former castle complex had an approximately circular core castle , protected by a main moat with a three-sided wall and moat system . The Catholic parish in Stein is named as the owner.

Today's Burgstall still shows a rubble hill with wall remains, probably a residential tower or keep , as well as wall and moat remains.

literature

• 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. 266–269.
• Christoph Morrissey: Hechingen-Stein: The People's Castle . In the S. (Arrangement): Zollernalbkreis . (Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany, Volume 43). Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1763-7 , pp. 185-186.
• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volksburg Stein at leo-bw.de
2. ^ Entry on Volksburg Stein in the private database "Alle Burgen".