Altenburg Castle Ruin (Weiler)

En un regard

Le château en bref

Perched on a spur about 690 m above the hamlet of Altenburg, in the municipality of Weiler-Simmerberg in the western Allgäu, the Altenburg ruin, also known as Weilerburg, retains only a few fragments of rubble walling. It is said to have been built in the 13th century by Eberhard von Weiler, of a family of ministerials. After the male line of the family died out in 1557, the castle passed to the Habsburgs in 1569 and housed the Altenburg-Kellhöf court. Sold for demolition in 1784, it served as a quarry: stones were reused in 1826 for the bell tower of the church at Scheidegg. The site, protected as a monument and as an archaeological site, is reached on foot by a path, the final part of the climb being steep and the ground uneven.