En un regard
Le château en bref
The ruin of Bottenstein occupies a wooded spur of molasse at an altitude of 603 m, on the western flank of the Uerke valley, on the boundary between the cantons of Aargau and Lucerne. A small spur castle of rectangular plan, built around the middle of the 13th century by ministerials who took the name of Bottenstein, it was protected by two broad ditches cut into the rock. At its centre stood a tower measuring about 12.5 m on each side, flanked to the west by a residential building. Abandoned shortly after 1400, in ruins by around 1460, it passed in 1483 to the hospital of Zofingen. The walls were demolished in the 1830s; the foundations were uncovered and consolidated in 1949–1950.