En un regard
Le château en bref
North of the village of Wiesbach, in the Südwestpfalz district, the Schlosskopf hill bears the remains of a small Romanesque fortification: the foundations of a residential tower (Wohnturm) surrounded by a partially preserved refuge ditch. The walls, of rubble construction with double facing of rough sandstone blocks up to about one metre long, can still be traced for some 17 m to the north, 13 m to the east and 3 m to the west, the interior remaining filled in. The authors of the 2007 survey date the tower to between about 1150 and 1200, within a wider window from 1125 to 1250. The name of the builder has not been transmitted. Scholarly tradition has seen a fortification linked to the royal administration of the region, which the text of a 1297 charter mentioning the imperial Burgmannen of Wiesbach makes plausible without proving it. The site, listed as a protected cultural monument under the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act (§ 8 DSchG), is freely accessible from the village. A poorly documented excavation of 1921 has left little usable information.