Oflings Castle
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Standing position : | Clericals, ministerials, nobles | |
| Place: | Wangen in the Allgäu -Deuchelried | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 42 '26.1 " N , 9 ° 50' 41.7" E | |
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The Burg Oflings is a Turmhügelburg (moth) of the type of a tower castle by a stream on the edge of the Weiler Oflings in the district of the town Deuchelried Wangen in district Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg .
The castle was built around the year 1200 and was a ministerial castle of the St. Gallen monastery and was mentioned in 1340 as a fiefdom of the Hüss von Wolflins (= Oflings) family. Other owners of the castle were the imperial city of Wangen before 1510, Anaklet Sigg and the Sigg family in 1897. The castle was restored in 1996 and was awarded the Monument Protection Prize in 1997 . It is now privately owned and cannot be viewed from the inside.
The castle complex on a 3.50 meter high castle hill with a diameter of 23 meters shows a small rectangular tower castle with an expansive half-timbered upper storey from the late Middle Ages . The 17 meter high residential tower has a base area of 7.50 by 7.50 meters and a wall thickness of two meters.
literature
- Hans Ulrich Rudolf (eds.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0508-6 , pp. 397-400.
- René Wicker: Oflings in the Allgäu. A typically low-aristocratic tower hill castle as an extracurricular learning location in Upper Swabia? Scientific homework for the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools in Baden-Württemberg. Weingarten winter semester 2005/2006.
- Stefan Uhl: The residential tower of Oflings . In: residential towers . Beier and Beran, Langenweißbach 2002, pp. 121–126.
- Hans-Peter Mohr: The residential tower of Oflings near Wangen . In: In the Oberland . Issue 1/1999. Ravensburg district, pp. 56-61.
- Ulrich Gräf: From the medieval residential tower to the baroque town house - Monument Protection Prize 1997 . Schwäbischer Heimatbund, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 3–5.
- Heike von coastal field: Old tower in Oflings . In: building renovation, maintenance - modernization - conversion . Issue 6, November / December 1998, Bertelsmann Fachzeitschriften.
- Siegwalt Schiek: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Small guide, sheet 3. The tower castle of Oflings - municipality of Wangen i. A., District of Ravensburg . State Monument Authority of Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart 1973, City Archives Wangen, DOK 11DR / 10.2,5. 22nd
- Johannes Graf von Waldburg: On all ways: monuments of art . In: Home and Work. The circle of cheeks . Heimat und Wirtschaft, Aalen 1962, pp. 128–148.
Web links
- Entry on Oflings in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Ulrich Rudolf (ed.), Berthold Büchele, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of rule and power - castles and palaces in the Ravensburg district , p. 398 ff.