Burgruine Wehingen

En un regard

Le château en bref

The ruins of Wehingen Castle, also called Harrasburg, stand on the Grand Heuberg, the upper part of the Swabian Jura, at about 907 metres above sea level, some 2.2 kilometres east of the village of Wehingen. This spur castle occupied the end of the Schlosshalde ridge, above the hamlet of Harras and the valley of the Untere Bära. It was the cradle of the lords of Wehingen, a family of ministerials attested from the late twelfth century, who held their lands in fief from the counts of Hohenberg. In 1351, Hugo von Wehingen ceded the fortress to Duke Albert II of Austria, who pawned it several times to secure his debts. The family then went on to build careers at the Viennese court; its most illustrious member, Berthold von Wehingen, became provost of St Stephen's in Vienna and then Archbishop of Salzburg in 1404. The castle is said to have been built between 1150 and 1200, remodelled around 1250 and destroyed around 1475. Only sections of walls remain, and in the ground the traces of the ditch and enclosure wall. The site, within the Upper Danube Nature Park, is reachable via the hiking trails around Wehingen.