Rusbühl Castle

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Rusbühl Castle
Creation time : 11th or 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of a moat
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Moss bench wood "Rusbühl"
Geographical location 47 ° 42 '5 "  N , 8 ° 56' 21"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '5 "  N , 8 ° 56' 21"  E
Height: 495  m above sea level NHN
Rusbühl Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Rusbühl Castle

The castle Rusbühl is an Outbound hilltop castle on the southeastern end of a small 495  m above sea level. NHN high Kuppe, which is about 600 meters southeast of the church in the Bankholzen district of the municipality of Moos in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

The castle was probably built during the 11th or 12th century by the noble free lords of Bankholzen named between 1050 and 1092 or the Constance Ministerials of the same name , who were named between 1158 and the 13th century . The castle on the Rusbühl is probably the predecessor of the somewhat younger castle on the Schlossbühl . Remnants of moats have been preserved from the former castle on a 44 × 23 meter plateau .

literature

  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 82-83 and 151.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Derschka : Die Ministeriale des Hochstiftes Konstanz ( Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History: Lectures and Research ; Special Volume 45). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-6755-0 , pp. 36-40.
  2. ↑ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , p. 82ff.