Neufels castle ruins (Neuenstein)

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Neufels castle ruins
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Creation time : Mentioned in 1287
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Bergfriedstump, remains of the wall
Place: Neuenstein -Neufels
Geographical location 49 ° 15 '0 "  N , 9 ° 37' 14.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '0 "  N , 9 ° 37' 14.9"  E
Neufels castle ruins (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Neufels castle ruins

The castle ruin Neufels is the ruin of a spur castle on a wide spur above the copper on the edge of Neufels, a today's hamlet of the city of Neuenstein in the Hohenlohe district in Baden-Württemberg .

The castle was mentioned as Nuwenfels in 1287 and was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Neuenstein . After shares of the castle had come to other noble families over heiresses, one was in 1361 truce agreement closed. Between 1369 and 1378 Mainz bought parts of the castle from the Ganerbe , some of whom were members of the Schleglerbund . In 1395 a campaign by Count Eberhard des Mild von Württemberg against Neufels failed. The castle was besieged and destroyed by the Hallers in 1441 because of the participation of individual gan heirs in an attack on Hall merchants in 1439 , their moat was filled, the keep was undermined and overturned.

The castle ruins still show parts of the curtain wall and the keep stump with a diameter of 6.5 meters.

literature

  • Wilhelm Gradmann: Castles and palaces in Hohenlohe. DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87181-209-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neufels at leo-bw.de
  2. ^ Entry on Neufels ruins in the private database "Alle Burgen".