Ittendorf Castle

Ittendorf Castle
Ittendorf Castle
Alternative name (s):	Ittendorf Castle
Creation time :	probably 13th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	lock
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Markdorf - Ittendorf
Geographical location	47 ° 42 '6.6 "  N , 9 ° 20' 22.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '6.6 "  N , 9 ° 20' 22.8"  E
Height:	440  m above sea level NN

The castle Ittendorf , today Castle Ittendorf is an Outbound hilltop castle and a later palace on an approximately 440  m above sea level. NN high elevation in today's Ittendorf district of the small town of Markdorf in Baden-Württemberg in the Lake Constance district . The castle and the church of St. Martin are considered landmarks of Ittendorf.

The castle of the Schenken von Schmalegg taverns , a Guelph - Hohenstaufen ministerial family , which was probably built in the 13th century , is attested to around 1260. In 1302 the castle and the village became the feudal dependence of the Salem monastery through a formal sale . The castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War.

The castle was built by Einsiedeln Monastery on the castle site in the 17th century and expanded as a governor's office from 1671 to 1677.

The castle, which is surrounded by a medieval circular wall, is a three-story stepped gable building that has been in changing private ownership since the secularization .

Badische Bauernschule association

On November 22, 1931, the Badische Bauernschule was founded by several associations under Lambert Schill as the “Badische Bauernschule” association after a long renovation phase in Ittendorf Castle and inaugurated in the presence of Minister Andreas Hermes . It was forcibly dissolved as early as 1933 and re-established in Schwerzen after the Second World War .

literature

• Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district in: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Find reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14. 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3 510 49114 9 , ISSN  0071-9897 , pp. 583-586.

Web links

Commons : Ittendorf Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ittendorf at leo-bw.de
2. ↑ Castle Ittendorf at burgenwelt.de
3. ↑ Ittendorf at leo-bw.de
4. ^ Badischer Landwirtschaftlicher Hauptverband e. V., Freiburg (Hrsg.): "The way of the farming college. Festschrift for the opening of the Baden farming school in Tiengen", 1955