Altsummerau ruins

Altsummerau ruins
	Altsummerau ruins
Creation time :	around 1152
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains, keep
Standing position :	Nobles, clericals
Place:	Tettnang - Langnau
Geographical location	47 ° 37 '41.5 " N , 9 ° 38' 26.5" E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '41.5 " N , 9 ° 38' 26.5" E
Height:	500 m above sea level NN

The Altsummerau ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle south of the Argen at 500 m above sea level. NN high Kapf near Rattenweiler belonging to the Langnau district of the city of Tettnang in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The castle built by the Lords of Summerau was mentioned in 1152. Until the transition to the Bishops of Constance, it was the ancestral seat of the noble family named after it. It was renewed in the 13th century and destroyed during the Thirty Years War between 1633 and 1660.

investment

From the former castle are still relatively abundant remains of the keep from a secured vault and continue to numerous secured over their entire length of walls, d. H. in principle, the entire defensive wall as well as the foundation walls of other buildings have been preserved. The castle allows a view several hundred meters down a steep slope, limited by the local deciduous forest, to the camping area at Laimnau -Badhütten (with pedestrian bridge) and further up the Argen to Unterlangnau and Oberlangnau .

literature

Max Miller (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). Kröner, Stuttgart 1965, DNB 456882928 .
Alois Schneider: Castles and fortifications in the Lake Constance district . Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (= Fund reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 14 ). 1st edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-510-49114-9 , pp. 635-638 .

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Altsummerau - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry on Altsummerau ruins in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Images and texts about castles and castle ruins in the Argental at argen-blicke.de