Rotenberg Castle Site

Architecture, patrimoine et histoire · Allemagne entière

At the eastern tip of the wooded Stromberg ridge, above the Tripsdrill leisure park, the Rotenberg holds the traces of a small medieval castle whose history is almost silent. No written record names its builders or says when it was abandoned, but pottery shards confirm occupation in the 13th century. The spur can still be read on the ground: a neck ditch about 20 m wide and 6 m deep cuts it off from the ridge, and the summit forms a nearly square mound about 8 m across that probably carried a timber or stone-and-timber tower. A small platform and traces of a palisade terrace complete the site. It may have watched over the Rennweg ridge road, and a link with the lords of Magenheim has been suggested. In winter the view reaches the Hohenasperg and the Swabian Jura.