Binningen Castle

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Binningen Castle
Creation time : around 1482
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Hilzingen -Binningen
Geographical location 47 ° 47 '32.3 "  N , 8 ° 43' 33.2"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '32.3 "  N , 8 ° 43' 33.2"  E
Height: 510  m above sea level NN
Binningen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Binningen Castle

The Castle Binningen is a Outbound hilltop castle on the 510  m above sea level. NN high church hill of the district Binningen of the municipality Hilzingen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The likely castle was mentioned as a tower in 1482/83. Because of the risk of the area slipping, the tower was demolished after 1695, as it also endangered the neighboring church. It is possible that Binningen Castle , built between 1705 and 1707 by the Barons von Hornstein, was built as a successor to the castle.

No structural remains have been preserved from 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 , p. 67.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter: Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area , p. 67