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Lauterstein Castle

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The remains of the castle can be visited

Lauterstein Castle refers to the ruins of a rock castle on a hillside location on a pointed 580 m above sea level rock spur opposite the Lautertopf in the Lautern district of the municipality of Blaustein in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg.

History+

The castle, built around 1200 by the Lords of Lauterstein, was mentioned in 1219 as being owned by Eberhard Ritter von Lauterstein. Further owners mentioned before 1364 are the Lords of Freyberg and before 1484 the Lords of Bernhausen. In 1556 the castle was destroyed. Only a few wall remains of the castle have been preserved.

Description+

The core castle (which has disappeared except for minor wall remains) from the 13th and 14th centuries was located on a rock spur steeply sloping to the north, west and south above the Lautertal and was delimited by a shield wall (wal …

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

This description is a machine translation of an excerpt from the linked Wikipedia article. The source text was written by its authors, the translation is by Mobile History; like the original it is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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