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Alternative name (s): Gailingen, Bürgli Castle
Creation time : around 1278
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: dig
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Gailingen
Geographical location 47 ° 42 '13.3 "  N , 8 ° 44' 55"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '13.3 "  N , 8 ° 44' 55"  E
Height: 560  m above sea level NN
Bürglischloss (Baden-Württemberg)
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The Bürglischloss , also called Burg Gailingen or Bürgli Schloss , is the ruin of a spur castle on a protruding 560  m above sea level. NN spur of the Rauhenberg about 1000 meters north of the community of Gailingen am Hochrhein in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was probably built around 1278 by the Lords of Gailingen. The 14.5 meter wide and 5 to 6 meter deep neck ditch is still preserved from the former castle complex . An observation tower has been located on the 1200 square meter area since 1998. With good visibility you can see from Vorarlberg to the Bernese Alps.

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. 83-84.
  • 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. 68-69 and 164.

photos

  • View of the Bürglischloss from Dörflingen

  • View of the Bürglischloss from Gailingen

  • Lookout tower at the Bürglischloss

  • View towards Gailingen

  • View towards Schaffhausen

  • Information board

  • Fall wall in the neck ditch