En un regard
Le château en bref
Hohenlupfen Castle, also known as Lupfen Castle, occupied the summit of the Lupfen (about 975 m), an outlier that forms the highest point of the Alb de la Baar, above the municipality of Talheim in the district of Tuttlingen. It should not be confused with the Hohenlupfen Castle at Stühlingen, a later residence of the same family. First recorded in 1065, the site was the cradle of the Counts of Lupfen, a family of the high Swabian nobility that acquired the landgraviate of Stühlingen in the mid-13th century. Repeated conflicts with the Counts of Fürstenberg, allied with the imperial city of Rottweil, sealed its fate: in 1377, the men of Rottweil captured Count Eberhard von Lupfen at Tuttlingen and razed the castle. Rebuilt, it was destroyed again in 1416 by Rottweil, acting for King Sigismund against the Lupfens, who were allied with Austria, and was never restored. The lordship then passed to the lords of Friedingen and was bought by Württemberg in 1444. Only a traced rampart and ditch remain legible in the terrain; an observation tower, the Lupfenturm, was erected on the presumed site of the former keep. A model of the castle is displayed at the local museum in Talheim.
