Heidelberg Castle is a famous ruin and one of the the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps. The rich and e ...
Hohentübingen Castle rises above the city atop of the 372m high Spitzberg hill. The castle is a mighty renaissance construct ...
The largest fortified Stauffer palace north of the Alps was built at the end of the 12th century by the Staufer emperors, whi ...
One of the few intact medieval castle complexes from the Stauffer period lies high above the romantic Neckar River valley sur ...
Dilsberg Castle is a castle on a hill above the River Neckar. The castle was built by the counts of Lauffen in the 12th centu ...
It is not known exactly when the Tiefburg castle was built or by whom. It is assumed that it was built in the 12th century, p ...
Hirschhorn Castle was built around 1250-1260 on land given as a fief by Lorsch Abbey, which since 1232 was in the possession ...
Hinterburg is one of the four castles in a string along the Neckar River, built by the von Steinach family in the 1100s. It i ...
Hornberg Castle was probably originally built in the late 12th century. The first mention of the castle dates from 1184. In 1 ...
The Wasserschloss (water castle) in Bad Rappenau is a moated castle from the early 17th century. The castle was built in 1601 ...
Schadeck Castle is the most recent and smallest, but still most interesting of the four Neckarstein castles. It is perched on ...
Schauenburg castle was built in the first half of the 12th century by the Edelfreien of Schauenburg. The family died out alre ...
Mittelburg castle, one of the four castles above Neckarsteinach, was probably built around 1165 by Conrad I of Steinach, the ...
Weinsberg castle was established on a mountain at the trade route running from Heilbronn to Schwäbisch Hall around the y ...
Horneck castle was built around 1200 and was given to the Teutonic Order by Konrad von Horneck in 1438, thereby making it the ...
Zwingenberg Castle dates from the 13th century. In the 1326 the lords of Zwingenberg were mentioned as an owner. In 1364 the ...
Eberbach Castle consists of three separate castles situated about 160 metres high above the river Neckar. It is assumed that ...
Vorderburg is one of the four local castles built early 13th century by Ulrich I of Steinach. It consists essentially of a re ...
Burg Stolzeneck was probably built as imperial castle during the 13th century. It was damaged in 1504 during the War of the S ...