En un regard
Le château en bref
Known locally as the "Wagenburg", the Lägelen ruin occupies a rocky spur, the Schlossfelsen, above the Upper Danube valley, near the village of Hausen im Tal, which is attached to the municipality of Beuron. Perched at around 775–780 metres above sea level, the site overlooks the campsite of the same name and faces the limestone cliff of the Alte Hausener Wand, within the Upper Danube Nature Park. Founded around 1100 by a local knightly family, the lords of Lägelen, the fortress remained modest: a main enclosure of about 26 by 20 metres, protected on the plateau side by a deep ditch cut into the rock and by two less pronounced ditches at the foot of the spur. A possible lower bailey extended beyond the second ditch. The surviving remains are sparse: a fragment of shield wall more than three metres thick, retaining walls, and a few courses of rusticated stonework that suggest an important building, perhaps a tower. Visitors come mainly for the view over the valley. A local legend places there a cruel young woman who is said to haunt the cavities beneath the rock and to guard a treasure together with a black poodle.
