Arnegg Castle

Architecture, patrimoine et histoire · Allemagne entière

Perched on a wooded spur 559 metres above sea level, overlooking the village of Arnegg and the Blau valley, the remains of this medieval castle tell eight centuries of Swabian history. Probably founded in the 12th or 13th century by the lords of Arnegg, whose name is thought to derive from "Arneneck", Arno's corner, the site appears in the records in 1265 through a monk of Wiblingen. Passing to the counts of Dillingen and then of Württemberg, it was devastated in 1378 by the troops of the free city of Ulm during the War of the Cities. Rebuilt in the 15th century as the seat of the lordship of Arnegg, held by the lords of Stadion from 1470, it still gained outbuildings in 1639 and an administrative building designed by Franz Anton Bagnato in 1783-1785, before being largely demolished from 1808 onwards. On a site of about 120 by 70 metres, protected by a ditch, remains of the curtain wall of the inner castle and the outer bailey survive, along with a rock that probably bore the keep, among private houses.