CastleEmerkingen

Emerkingen Castle

Emerkingen Castle

Museum

Burgrest Emerkingen refers to the castle ruin of Emerkingen Castle, also known as Römerturm (Roman Tower), located in a meadow in the middle of the municipality of Emerkingen in the Alb-Donau-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.

The former moated castle was presumably built before 1100 by Heinrich von Emerkingen. In the first half of the 14th century, the lords of Emerkingen erected the keep as a residential tower. Nothing remains of the moated castle. The keep received a clock and a bell in 1921.

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emerkingen_R%C3%B6merturm.jpg

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