Granegg Ruin

En un regard

Le château en bref

The ruin of Granegg, known in the Middle Ages as Michelstein, crowns the Schlossfelsen at an elevation of around 921 metres, on the western slope of the Bära valley, north of the Grand Heuberg, in the municipality of Egesheim. The lords of Michelstein were its first masters: their lineage is attested from 1102 and disappears from the sources at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The castle is said to have suffered from the earthquake of 1356; in 1377, during the Swabian City War, the free imperial city of Rottweil razed it. The Habsburgs then enfeoffed the ruin to several noble families. From 1536 to 1792, it belonged to the Barons Ifflinger, to whom it owes its present name of Granegg. Since 1931, it has been entrusted to the Schwäbischer Albverein, which has consolidated the remains. Sections of walling in rubble stone and bossed ashlar can still be seen, as well as part of the keep. The site may be visited freely.