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Mauracher Hof
The 'Roman' Mauracher Hof

The tradition of the Mauracher Hof goes back for almost 2000 years. The medieval name 'Muron' ('on the walls') indicates that the Alemanni have found stone walls of a Roman estate. Remains of these walls, pottery and other finds were discovered in the 1970s. Ground radar measurements of the years 2010/11 detected the walls.

The existence of a Roman estate ('villa rustica') at the foot of the “Mauracher Berg” is stabilised by means of underground foundations. Two pieces of pottery (with Potter's mark) and a copper boiler, which were found here, allow a dating in the 2nd/3rd century. To what extent this Roman farm was destroyed after the Romans left in 260 A.D. And therefore left the territories east of the Rhine to the Alamanni can not be said for sure.

In the year 952 the Great Emperor Otto withdrew the village 'Muron' (later: Maurach) the Guntram count of the Breisgau and transferred it to the Bishop Konrad von Konstanz. A medieval courtyard in Maurach (”curtis in Muron”) is attested since the 12th century in many documents, often along with a church ('ecclesia'), that has probably been on the Eastern spur of the “Mauracher Berg”.

This medieval Court 'ze Mure' which used to be called 'ze Gloter' was Due to this it became the property of 'Constance justice' or even - after 1316 at the Church Pastor Johannes Waldener - make called ‘Waldeners Hof'.


An excerpt from the deed of Emperor Otto the Great of the 21 February 962, mentions in the 'muron' for the first time. The location ('locus') was removed from the Count Guntram and given to the Bishop Konrad of Konstanz.