Dickener Schlößle

Architecture, patrimoine et histoire · Landkreis Calw

In the woods above the Nagold valley, west of the hamlet of Dickehof, which belongs to Stammheim, now a district of Calw, lie the scant remains of the Dickener Schlößle. Neither the founding date nor the builders of this small medieval fortification are known with certainty, but the official 19th-century description of the Oberamt Calw already called it the "last remains" of a castle. At that time the foundations of a square tower could still be made out, with walls about five feet thick, standing in places some ten feet high. On the naturally accessible side, a deep ditch protected the rear of the tower. Excavations carried out then yielded arrowheads, coins, coarse pottery, a morning star and a key. Today only a few stretches of wall and the line of the ditch bear witness to the structure, in the heart of the Black Forest Central/North Nature Park, reachable on hiking trails from Stammheim.