Hinterer Wartenberg Ruin

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Hinterer Wartenberg is the southernmost of the three fortresses that succeed one another along the Wartenberg ridge, east of the village of Muttenz, in the canton of Basel-Country. These three castles bear no proper name of their own: they are told apart only by their position, vorderer, mittlerer and hinterer, and their silhouette has become one of the emblems of the municipality. Founded in the twelfth century and inhabited until the fifteenth century, the rear burg is linked to members of the Frohburg kindred before being abandoned, like its neighbours. Its profile is recognisable by the round keep, which can be climbed, and by the palas, a large reception building erected at the southern end of the enclosure. The hill regained strategic value during the Second World War, as military works still attest. Today the ruin can be visited freely. The Gesellschaft pro Wartenberg maintains it and has laid out a viewing terrace against the eastern wall, from which the eye takes in Muttenz and its surroundings. The site is among the objects of regional importance protected in the canton.