Waldstein Castle
Encyclopedia
Waldstein Castle is a ruined castle on an eminence near Franzosenhof in the Waldstein valley near the village of Fischerbach
in Ortenaukreis
in the south German state of Baden-Württemberg
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The hill castle
was built by the lords of Waldstein, was mentioned in the records in 1353, but fell into ruins after 1500. Of the former castle site on a rock plateau of 40 by 10 metres, only a few sections of the ruined walls remain.
Fischerbach
Fischerbach is a town in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.-History:The town was first registered in 1139. The village was part of the Gengenbach monastery and the "Herren von Wolfach" and later became part of the Fürstenberg shire...
in Ortenaukreis
Ortenaukreis
Ortenaukreis is a district in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rastatt, Freudenstadt, Rottweil, Schwarzwald-Baar and Emmendingen...
in the south German state of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
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The hill castle
Hill castle
A hill castle is a castle built on a natural feature that stands above the surrounding terrain. It is a term derived from the German Höhenburg used in categorising castle sites by their topographical location...
was built by the lords of Waldstein, was mentioned in the records in 1353, but fell into ruins after 1500. Of the former castle site on a rock plateau of 40 by 10 metres, only a few sections of the ruined walls remain.
Sources
- Klein, Kurt (1997). Burgen, Schlösser und Ruinen. Zeugen der Vergangenheit im Ortenaukreis. Reiff Schwarzwaldverlag. Offenburg. ISBN 3-922663-47-8