Reute Castle in Hegau

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Reute Castle in Hegau
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Eigeltingen - Reute im Hegau - "Habsnest"
Geographical location 47 ° 53 '0 "  N , 8 ° 54' 14"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '0 "  N , 8 ° 54' 14"  E
Reute Castle in Hegau (Baden-Württemberg)
Reute Castle in Hegau

The castle Reute im Hegau is a Outbound hilltop castle in Won Habs Nest 1,300 meters southwest of the district Reute im Hegau the town of Eigeltingen in Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

In the 1990s, as part of an aerial survey, the castle stables , which were probably built by the Lords of Honstetten, were discovered. The former castle complex, of which nothing has been preserved, was a circular moat system with a diameter of 100 to 120 meters and a moat width of around 20 meters.

literature

  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll: Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau: fortifications and noble residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Michael Greuter (Ed.): Hegau Library 109 . Association for the history of the Hegaus, Verlag Michael Greuter, Singen 2001, ISBN 3-9806273-2-2 , p. 119.