Schollenberg castle site

En un regard

Le château en bref

Nieder-Schollenberg was a lowland castle that guarded the crossing of the Rhine between Flaach and Rüdlingen, at an altitude of 354 m, at the foot of the Irchel. Protected to the north by the slope down to the Flaacherbach and to the east by the ravine of the Tobelbach, it had a water-filled moat to the south and a dry moat to the west. It comprised a rectangular tower, a residential building to the west and a fortified courtyard to the east, all surrounded by an enclosure wall, with a lower bailey to the south and a large barn with stepped gables built around 1588. The castle has disappeared, but a tuff bridge of 1588 over the Tobelbach survives and is protected.