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Le château en bref
The Bubenstein ruin, also known as Neu-Falkenstein, occupies a rocky spur at an altitude of about 560 m on the northern slope of the Höllental, some 500 m west of Falkenstein Castle, above the village of Falkensteig, in the municipality of Buchenbach. This small spur castle was probably built in the 13th century by Walter von Falkenstein, a member of the ministerial family that also held the neighbouring fortress and controlled the valley road; he is named as its owner in 1266. The structure, referred to in the documents as a "tower", subsequently passed in shares: in 1328, Werner von Staufen sold three quarters of it to Johann Schnewlin, a member of a powerful patrician family of Freiburg, and in 1407 Kuno von Falkenstein ceded the remaining quarter to Hanmann Schnewlin. In the 19th century, part of the rock was blasted away during the construction of the Höllental railway line, and in the 1960s the highest walls, deemed dangerous to the road below, were demolished. Only masonry remains and the gorge ditch survive today.