Moated Castle Möggingen

Möggingen Castle

The moated castle Möggingen is a former moated castle in the Radolfzell district of Möggingen in the district of Constance . After being destroyed in the Thirty Years War , the castle was restored to its present form in the middle of the 17th century. Today the Radolfzell ornithological station is located in the building .

history

In 1363 a manor was first mentioned in Möggingen, a moated castle with two moats and a circular wall. This belonged to the Lords of Bodman until 1515 , who sold it to the Lords of Homburg, but bought it again in 1551. In 1525, during the German Peasants' War , the castle was besieged by rebellious peasants from neighboring communities, but the local population supported it in the fight. As a result, the castle survived the attack unscathed, while the village was burned by the rebellious farmers instead. In 1600 the previous mansion in the south of the complex was replaced by the current castle building. However, it was burned down with the rest of the facility twice during the Thirty Years War, namely in 1632 and 1636, so that the facility had to be completely renovated in 1648. As part of the Rhine Federation Act , Möggingen came to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806 , and to Baden in 1810. In 1834 the castle was completely renovated, for example the curtain wall was largely removed and the outside of the castle was significantly changed.

After the Second World War , the castle was briefly occupied by French troops before the Radolfzell ornithological station moved into the castle in 1946. This was affiliated to the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in 1959 and has been a research center of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology since 1998 .

description

The castle complex consists of the castle building with a surrounding wall and the two trenches that are still visible. The palace building is a three-story rectangular building with a hipped roof and a hexagonal stair tower on the southwest side. At the end of the 19th century there was a clay tablet on the portal of the tower with the coat of arms of the Counts of Enzenberg to whom the castle belonged at that time. The gatehouse also belongs to the complex, in the front of which there was a chapel in the Middle Ages.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Dagmar Zimdars (arrangement): Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 466.
↑ ^a ^b ^c History of the Möggingen district . Accessed July 28, 2014.
^ ^A ^b Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 531.
^ Franz Xaver Kraus (arr.): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden. First volume: The art monuments of the Constance district. Mohr, Freiburg i. Br. 1887, p. 308.

47.766111111111 8.9963888888889Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 58 " N , 8 ° 59 ′ 47" E

[Dehio-1] Dagmar Zimdars (arrangement): Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Baden-Württemberg II. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 466.

[URL-2] History of the Möggingen district . Accessed July 28, 2014.

[Miller-3] A ^b Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 531.

[4] Franz Xaver Kraus (arr.): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden. First volume: The art monuments of the Constance district. Mohr, Freiburg i. Br. 1887, p. 308.