Horrenberg Castle

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Horrenberg Castle
Location of the castle hill in the village

Location of the castle hill in the village

Creation time : around 1220
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Dielheim- Horrenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 16 '52.4 "  N , 8 ° 46' 52.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '52.4 "  N , 8 ° 46' 52.4"  E.
Height: 160  m above sea level NN

The castle Horrenberg is an Outbound lowland castle in the district Horrenberg the municipality of Dielheim in the Rhine-Neckar region in Baden-Württemberg .

In 1184 a castellum Horemberg was mentioned at the castle site . Around 1220, the local authorities at that time built a tower castle next to the road above the marshy Leimbach lowlands to protect the Reichsstraße and the customs station.

In 1238, Dieter von Horrenberg, a local nobleman, was mentioned for the first time, who presumably named himself after the castle and whose noble family had already died out in the 15th century.

Before 1272, Bishop Heinrich von Speyer acquired the upper Bruhrain , to which the village of Horrenberg and the Horrenburg belonged.

In the 14th to 15th centuries, the castle, which was no longer needed by the local rulers, was probably already in ruins and was named in later sources as the "former castle". Only a piece of rubble remains from the former castle complex.

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