Hohendießen Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

The ruin of Hohendießen overlooks the village of Dießen, now part of Horb am Neckar, in the northern Black Forest. A local nobility of Dießen is recorded around 1100; in 1334, Ulrich and Wolf von Dießen appear as owners. In the fifteenth century, the castle was shared among several neighbouring families until Burkhard von Ehingen gathered all the shares in 1491. Damaged during the German Peasants' War in 1525, the castle passed to the Wernau family in 1552, and Hans Wilhelm von Wernau converted it into a residential castle between 1557 and 1580. It then belonged to the Schenk von Stauffenberg family (1696), the Swiss Muri Abbey (1708), the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family (1803), and the Ow-Wachendorf family (1889), before being taken over by the municipality of Dießen in 1965. The ruin was stabilised in 1969, then again during a second campaign in 1990; it remains freely accessible.