Ehinger Burg

Architecture, patrimoine et histoire · Landkreis Tübingen

Clinging to the Schlossfelsen above the Katzenbach valley, the Ehinger Burg lies near Bad Niedernau, a district of Rottenburg am Neckar, in the district of Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg). This hilltop castle was built in the second half of the 13th century, after 1280 according to some authors, as the residence of the lords of Ehingen, a lineage named after the village of Ehingen, now part of Rottenburg, and later raised to the rank of imperial barons. Its life was relatively short: in 1407, during a conflict with the counts of Zollern, the fortress was destroyed and never rebuilt. Only foundations and a wall about one metre high remain, on the south side of a narrow rocky platform. About 150 metres away lies a second castle site, the Schlösslesberg, whose history remains puzzling and which is the subject of archaeological research by the University of Tübingen.