Upper Singen Castle

Upper Castle Singen (2011)

Oberes Schloss Singen , also called Schloss Singen or Enzenbergsches Schloss , is a castle in the town of Singen in the immediate vicinity of the town hall, in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle, a three-storey almost square building with a mansard roof, was built from 1809 to 1810 by Franz Josef von Enzenberg , who acquired the property through marriage.

The Enzenbergsche Schloss is now home to the Archaeological Hegau Museum , which shows in 13 rooms the living environment of the people who settled in Hegau from the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago until the early Middle Ages . There is a collection of fossils, minerals and butterflies in the basement.

In Singen there is also a Lower Singen Castle (Walburgishof, Walpurgenhof), a former factory that was converted into a castle in 1795.

literature

• Michael Losse, Hans Noll: castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau. Defense buildings and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area (= Hegau Library 109). Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 2 ″  E