Dietmannsried Castle

Dietmannsried Castle
The island pond, in the Middle Ages a moth on an artificial island
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, Motte in local position
Conservation status:	Burgstall, tower hill and moat
Place:	Dietmannsried
Geographical location	47 ° 48 '25.9 "  N , 10 ° 17' 25.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '25.9 "  N , 10 ° 17' 25.1"  E

The Dietmannsried castle is a lost moated castle of the type of a tower hill castle (moth) on the southern cemetery wall in the "Inselweiher" in Dietmannsried (Am Inselweiher) in the Oberallgäu district in Bavaria .

The castle was owned by a knight Ritzner von Überbach, a ministerial officer from Kempten.

Only the tower hill and the ring moat are left of the former castle complex , which is now indicated by a memorial stone .

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Karl Bosl (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 7: Bavaria (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 277). 3. Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-520-27703-4 .

Web links

• Entry on Dietmannsried (Inselweiher) in the private database "Alle Burgen".