Riedheim Castle

Riedheim Castle
	Burgstall from Hilzingen
Alternative name (s):	Burgstall
Creation time :	1200 to 1300
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	Receive
Standing position :	Nobles, counts
Place:	Hilzingen- Riedheim
Geographical location	47 ° 45 '51.5 " N , 8 ° 45' 2.5" O Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '51.5 " N , 8 ° 45' 2.5" E
Height:	495 m above sea level NN

The castle Riedheim even Burgstall called, is a medieval castle on the eastern edge of Riedheim corner Castle Road / Tower Road in the town of Hilzingen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

history

The Ortsburg was built in the 13th to 14th centuries and was owned by the von Randegg family. The castle was allegedly damaged in the Swiss War and around 1500 the residential tower was probably increased and the courtyard portal expanded. In 1518 the castle was owned by Hans von Schellenberg and in 1609 by Konrad Vintler von Plätsch. In 1601 the property went to Archduke Leopold of Austria and in 1735 it was sold to the Petershausen Monastery . In 1803 the castle came to the Margraves of Baden and was sold to the municipality of Riedheim in 1841.

After the tower roof collapsed on May 20, 1951 and the top gable was broken off, the attic was restored in 1957. 1976 to 1978 the castle was restored.

description

Castle

The rectangular castle complex comprises a bering of around 38 by 27 meters with a rectangular residential tower in the middle with late Gothic stepped gables . The four-storey residential tower on an area of approximately 12.35 by 8.7 meters is 27 meters high with the high entrance 4.5 meters high. The wall thickness of the tower shows a thickness of 1.5 meters on the ground floor and a thickness of one meter from a height of three meters.

The curtain wall is around 1.2 meters thick and has scales built on the inside. The arched entrance (around 1550) is on the west side. The castle was surrounded by a moat and probably a rampart. The castle can only be viewed from the outside.

literature

Arthur Hauptmann: Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas . Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 78-81.
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 Hegau. Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-9806273-2-2 , pp. 119-120.

Web links

Commons : Burg Riedheim - collection of images