Hüffenhardt Castle

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Hüffenhardt Castle
Creation time : 1300 to 1400
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of the wall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Hüffenhardt

The castle Hueffenhardt is an Outbound castle in the hallway area "barges" in the town of Hüffenhardt in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .

The castle was first mentioned in the 14th century in the possession of the Lords of Weinsberg and was later owned by the Lords of Helmstatt and the Lords of Gemmingen .

In 1900 a three meter thick wall of the former castle was excavated. Otherwise nothing has been preserved from the castle complex, which can no longer be precisely located.

literature

  • Peter W. Sattler, Marion Sattler: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald - A guide to historical sights . Druckhaus Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , p. 185.