Old town (Gottmadingen)

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Castle old town
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, Wallrest
Place: Gottmadingen - "Heilsberg"
Geographical location 47 ° 44 '57.1 "  N , 8 ° 47' 1.2"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '57.1 "  N , 8 ° 47' 1.2"  E
Height: 561.4  m above sea level NN
Old Town (Baden-Württemberg)
Old town

The castle Old Town is an Outbound Höhenburg ( Wallburg ) to 561.4  m above sea level. NN on the eastern edge of the wooded plateau of the Heilsberg about 1600 meters north-northeast of Gottmadingen in the district of Konstanz ( Baden-Württemberg ).

Only a semicircular wall is left of the former castle complex.

literature

  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (Eds.): Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hegau-Bibliothek, Volume 109 . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 , pp. 6 and 86.
  • Sophie Stelzle-Hüglin, Michael Strobel, Andreas Thiel, Inken Vogt (arrangement): Archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office and the Baden-Württemberg State Surveying Office, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89021-717-6 , p. 119.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 69-70 and 129.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on the old town in the private database “Alle Burgen”.