En un regard
Le château en bref
Randegg Castle stands on a hill to the west of the village of Randegg, which belongs to the municipality of Gottmadingen, in the Hegau, very close to the Schaffhausen border. The medieval fortress controlled the royal road linking Ulm to Schaffhausen. It is first mentioned in 1214, in a deed drawn up for the abbey of Salem, which refers to the public highway passing by the castle. It was then the seat of the lords of Randegg, vassals of the Montforts and later loyal to the Habsburgs, a family that included, among others, the Bishop of Constance Burkhard II. The medieval castle was destroyed in 1499, during the Swabian War; little remains of it beyond a moat at the south-western foot of the hill. From 1567, the Schellenbergs had a new residence built, to which a chapel was added in 1592. During the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops occupied the castle and set it on fire when they left in 1639; it burned again in 1728. The lordship changed hands often: the Späth family, the canons of Beuron, and then the barons of Deuring from 1755. In the twentieth century, the collector Hans Koch bought it in 1923, and the painter Otto Dix lived there from 1933 to 1936. The castle still belongs to private owners and is not normally open to visitors; since 1989, it has hosted the art exhibition "Experimentelle" every two years.
