Degelstein Castle
Degelstein Castle | ||
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Interior view of the ruin |
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Alternative name (s): | Weiherschlösschen | |
Creation time : | ca. 1326-1332
as Tegelstein, property of the St. Gallen Monastery |
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Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
Place: | Lindau - Schachen | |
Geographical location | 47 ° 33 '26.1 " N , 9 ° 39' 29.8" E | |
Height: | 399 m above sea level NN | |
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The Degelstein Castle , also called Weiherschlösschen , is the ruin of a Niederungsburg (also water castle ) near the shore of Lake Constance in the area of the Lindenhof Park in what is now the Schachen district of Lindau in the Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) in Bavaria .
history
Originally, a two-story small castle house with stepped gables and a gable roof was mentioned in 1332 on the lake shore ("Tegelstein"). It was a castle surrounded by a curtain wall with outer bailey and a round tower. In 1839 the castle complex "Weiherschlösschen" was demolished, the moat was filled and today only about 3 meter high wall remains of the castle entrance and ground floor, as well as a cross keyhole in a wall in the area of the Lindenhof park are preserved.
The owners of the castle are known to be the Haintzel family (1332), the Lindau women's monastery (1385), Kornelius von Kirchen (around 1592), the city of Lindau (1621), Friedrich Gruber (1839), the city of Lindau (1956).
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Palaces and fortresses on Lake Constance. Volume II - North-East . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2001, ISBN 3-933614-09-0 , pp. 190–197.
- Günter Schmitt : knights, counts, princes of the church. Biberach 2011.