Ruins of Radegg

The Ruins of Radegg are the ruins of a spur castle built around the year 1200 in Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland and destroyed around the year 1300. It is located high above the Wangental on a spur of the Rossberg which drops off steeply on three sides in Osterfingen in the municipality of Wilchingen.
The Ruins of Radegg were researched between the years 1923 and 1937. Nevertheless, little is known about their origin and destruction nor about those who had built the castle, the barons von Radegg. This family is first mentioned in 1188 with a reference to Heinrich Scado. A knight "Rudolf nobilis dictus Schade de Radegg" is documented around the year 1225. He is said to have had some unspecified relation to the Rheinau Abbey. In the 13th century there existed, in addition to the barons von Radegg, a second family of the same name. The bourgeois family Schad von Radegg settled in Schaffhausen in the Late Middle Ages. This makes it difficult to firmly assign individuals to the Ruins of Radegg. This baronial family died out in 1333. According to Johann Jakob Rüeger, chronicler of the history of Schaffhausen, the Randecker family was related to the lords of the castles of Burg Randeck , Randenburg and Schloss Randegg.

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