En un regard
Le château en bref
Hornberg Castle, also known as Neu-Hornberg, stands on the Schlossberg, a granite spur that rises some hundred metres above the small town of Hornberg, in the Gutach valley (Middle Black Forest). It came into being around 1200, when the lords of Hornberg, after dividing their domain with the Triberg branch, left their original seat of Althornberg for this site, at the foot of which they founded a town. The minnesinger Bruno of Hornberg lived there at the end of the 13th century. After the family's decline, the counts of Württemberg bought back the rights in stages until 1443 and installed a bailiff there. The reformer Johannes Brenz found refuge there from 1548 to 1550. Enlarged during the 16th and early 17th centuries, the castle was set on fire by French troops on 9 January 1689. In the 18th century, a commander's residence and barracks formed a small ‘baroque castle’, where Princess Augusta Elisabeth of Thurn und Taxis lived under house arrest until her death in 1787. The site passed to Baden in 1810, then housed a tobacco factory, followed by a brewery (1841), which was replaced by a hotel in 1896. The town of Hornberg acquired the site in 1956; the baroque castle was demolished in 1976. What remains is the keep, about 17 m high, converted into a viewing terrace, the powder tower of 1621, and sections of walls set within a landscaped setting.
