Vörbach Ruin

En un regard

Le château en bref

Above the Waldach valley, near Pfalzgrafenweiler in the northern Black Forest, the ruin of Vörbach, also known as Feherbach, is that of a ridge castle probably founded in the 12th century and mentioned as early as 1140 as one of the possessions of the Counts Palatine of Tübingen. In 1330 it belonged to the brothers Albrecht and Diem of Steinhilben, who sold it in 1360 to the Count Palatine Robert I. In 1440 it passed to the Counts of Württemberg, who enfeoffed it to the lords of Emershofen, then to the Ehingens (1485) and to Hans von Neuneck (1498). Württemberg redeemed it in 1625. After the village was destroyed by fire in 1798, its stones were used to rebuild Pfalzgrafenweiler. What remains are the foundations of a square keep with rusticated masonry, a shield wall, a flanking tower and a curved ditch; since 1906 a shelter of the Schwarzwaldverein has occupied a stump of tower.