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Le château en bref
The Hexenturm (‘Witches’ Tower’) is a former rock castle belonging to a group of small fortresses perched on the rocks around Wildenstein Castle, which overlooks the Danube valley in the municipality of Leibertingen. The remains lie about 200 metres south-west of Wildenstein, at around 745 metres above sea level, on a limestone pinnacle overlooking the valley. Like its neighbour Altwildenstein, this castle preceded the great fortress of Wildenstein, which was built in the 13th century. It consisted of two parts. The upper castle crowned a rocky pinnacle some twenty metres high, connected to the plateau by a ridge, whose levelled summit barely exceeds 10 × 11 metres; a hollowed-out cellar space and masonry walls up to six metres high in places can still be seen. The lower castle, at the foot of the pinnacle, guarded the entrance to a deep cave about twelve metres long. Surveys also record a cistern, a former gateway and a possible well fitted into a fissure. After the construction of Wildenstein, these rock sites lost their function and fell into ruin. The Hexenturm now lies within a nature protection area and is not open to visitors, but it can be seen from the paths that surround the castle complex.
