Landsöhr Castle (), also called Landseer Castle (''Burg Landseer'') or Bertaburg, is a lost

spur castle A spur castle is a type of medieval fortification that is sited on a spur (mountain), spur of a hill or mountain for defensive purposes. Ideally, it would be protected on three sides by steep hillsides; the only vulnerable side being that where t ...

on a northern spur, , of the Kornberg near

Bad Boll Bad Boll () is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History In 1321, the County of Württemberg purchased title over Bad Boll and came to possess it ''de jure'', but it was '' de facto'' still controlled b ...

in the county of

Göppingen Göppingen (; or ) is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the Goeppingen (district), district Göppingen. Göppingen is home to the toy company Märklin, and it is the birthplace ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

. The castle was probably built during the Celtic period as a

refuge castle A refuge castleCreighton, Oliver (2015). ''Early European Castles''. Bloomsbury. or refuge fort (, also ''Fluchtburg'', ''Volksburg'', ''Bauernburg'' or ''Vryburg'') is a castle-like defensive location, usually surrounded by Rampart (fortification ...

. The present ''

burgstall A ''burgstall'' is a German term referring to a castle of which so little is left that its appearance cannot effectively be reconstructed.

'' 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 Conrad III (; ; 1093 or 1094 – 15 February 1152) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was from 1116 to 1120 Duke of Franconia, from 1127 to 1135 anti-king of his predecessor Lothair III, and from 1138 until his death in 1152 King of the Romans in the ...

, is supposed to have had her dower seat here.''Bad Boll 2013''
at stauferstelen.net, retrieved 13 December 2013.

References

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: Derselbe: ''Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, Band 1 – Nordost-Alb: Wandern und entdecken zwischen Aalen und Aichelberg''. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß, 1988, , pp. 321–326.

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