Mainau Castle

Mainau Castle
Creation time :	probably 13th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Constance - Litzelstetten
Geographical location	47 ° 42 ′ 18 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 18 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E

The castle Mainau is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the Bodanrück barrier island Mainau in Lake Überlingen mentioned part of Lake Constance, in the district of Konstanz ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ).

A ministerial family named after the island of Mainau was first handed down in 1242. In 1271 the castle came to the Teutonic Order through the Reichau ministerial Arnold von Langenstein together with the possessions on the Bodanrück and, with the island of Mainau, became the administrative center of his possessions around Lake Constance. In the 18th century, the castle was demolished and on the Postal showing only ground tracks and small remnants of the castle, from 1739 to 1746 by the architect of the Order Johann Caspar Bagnato today's Baroque - castle , Schloss Mainau erected.

literature

• Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mainau Castle at badische-seiten.de