Eschbacher Castell

En un regard

Le château en bref

The "Eschbacher Castell" is the former manor house of the village of Eschbach, in the Markgräflerland, between Freiburg im Breisgau and Basel. A tall three-storey house visible from afar, it is the most distinctive building in the municipality. Its core is said to date from the 14th century, a period when Eschbach, owned by several monasteries and granted as a fief to noble families, entered Further Austria together with the Breisgau (1368). The lords of Rappoltstein, and from 1613 the Order of St John based at Heitersheim, subsequently held the lordship until its incorporation into the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806. Converted into the "Zum Löwen" inn from 1795, the house was renovated in the late 1990s: the works revealed several building phases as well as the remains of a former tower known as the "Brennerin". Since December 2018, the building has housed the Eschbach town hall.