Wasserburg Altenhausen

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Le château en bref

At the place called Langäcker, just north of the hamlet of Altenhausen, part of Schwäbisch Hall, there once stood a moated castle of which only a meadow now preserves the memory. The almost square enclosure, about a hundred metres on each side, was surrounded by ditches and a pond held back by a dam on the Otterbach. To the north, an elongated outer bailey preceded the main castle, which stood on a small motte that probably carried a single residential tower. The site was the seat of a family of the noble burghers of Hall, the Unmuß, who in the 14th century took the name Altenhausen. Abandoned before the end of that century, it changed hands several times before being acquired by the city of Hall in 1481 and then handed over to its Hospital of the Holy Spirit. A municipal hunting lodge followed, then a farm in the 19th century. The pond was drained, the ditches largely filled in and the motte levelled; only a few hollows to the south still betray the fortification.