En un regard
Le château en bref
The ‘Burgstall’ of Riedheim is a village castle preserved at the eastern edge of Riedheim, a locality in the municipality of Hilzingen, in the Hegau (Landkreis Konstanz). Despite its name, which usually denotes a vanished castle site, the structure still stands: a tall, rectangular four-storey residential tower, roughly 12.35 by 8.70 m at ground level and 27 m high, rises at the centre of a rectangular enclosure of about 38 by 27 m, 1.2 m thick, against which outbuildings once leaned. The original access was through a high doorway about 4.5 m above ground. The site was surrounded by a moat. A family of Riedheim, ministerials of the counts of Nellenburg, appears around 1100; in the 13th and 14th centuries, the lords of Randegg held the village, which was attached to their lordship of Heilsberg, and the present tower dates from this period. Damaged, according to tradition, in 1499, it was remodelled around 1500 (with stepped gables), then passed to the Schellenbergs, the House of Austria, Petershausen Abbey and Baden, before being sold to the municipality in 1841. Restored in 1902, then after its roof collapsed in 1951, and again in 1976–1978, the tower is today visible from the outside only.