Wahlwies Castle

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Wahlwies Castle
Alternative name (s): Peasant watch
Creation time : probably 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Stockach -Wahlwies- "Roßberg"
Geographical location 47 ° 48 '29.9 "  N , 8 ° 57' 32"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '29.9 "  N , 8 ° 57' 32"  E
Height: 589  m above sea level NHN
Wahlwies Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Wahlwies Castle

The castle Wahlwies , even Bauer guard called, is a Outbound hilltop castle on the 589  m above sea level. NHN high Roßberg about 1000 meters southwest of the church of Wahlwies , a district of Stockach in the Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

A double ditch , 15 meters wide and 4 meters deep, has been preserved from the former castle complex, which can be attributed to a lower aristocratic family suspected in the 13th century . According to local tradition, the epithet Bauernwacht goes back to a refuge for the local farmers during the Thirty Years' War .

literature

  • Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (Eds.): Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hegau-Bibliothek, Volume 109 . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-9806273-2-2 , p. 140.
  • 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. 104, 149.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wahlwies at leo-bw.de
  2. ^ Entry on Wahlwies (farmer's watch) in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  3. ↑ Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter: Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area. P. 140.