Landsöhr Castle

Landsöhr Castle
Burg Landsöhr, Burg Landseer, Bertaburg
Bad Boll
The hollows on the hill spur
Landsöhr Castle
Coordinates	48°37′24″N 9°37′38″E / 48.623265°N 9.627317°E / 48.623265; 9.627317Coordinates: 48°37′24″N 9°37′38″E / 48.623265°N 9.627317°E / 48.623265; 9.627317
Type	hill castle, spur castle
Code	DE-BW
Height	739.2 m above sea level (NHN)
Site information
Condition	burgstall (no above-ground ruins)
Site history
Built	first recorded in 1502

Landsöhr Castle (German: Burg Landsöhr), also called Landseer Castle (Burg Landseer) or Bertaburg, is a lost spur castle on a northern spur,739.2 m above sea level (NHN), of the Kornberg^[1] near Bad Boll in the county of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg.

The castle was probably built during the Celtic period as a refuge castle. The present burgstall only consists of two hollows between which the castle was probably located.

In the 12th century Berta von Boll, a sister of King Conrad III, is supposed to have had her dower seat here.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
2. ↑ Bad Boll 2013 at stauferstelen.net, retrieved 13 December 2013.

Literature

• Konrad Albrecht Koch: Burgenkundliche Beiträge zum Oberamt Göppingen. In: Blätter des Schwäbischen Albvereins. 1926.
• Hartwig Zürn: Boll. In: Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Geländedenkmale und die mittelalterlichen Burgstellen der Kreise Göppingen und Ulm. 1961.
• Günter Schmitt: Landsöhr (Bertaburg). In: Ders.: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Band 1 – Nordost-Alb: Wandern und entdecken zwischen Aalen und Aichelberg. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß, 1988, ISBN 3-924489-39-4, pp. 321–326.

External links

• Landsöhr Castle at viremo.eludi.net