Neipperg Castle

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Le château en bref

Set on a height overlooking the village of Neipperg, today a district of Brackenheim in the district of Heilbronn, Neipperg Castle is the cradle of the line of the lords, later counts, of Neipperg, mentioned as early as 1241. Its silhouette is distinguished by two main towers enclosed within the same almost square curtain wall: the Romanesque keep of the lower ward, the oldest element, some twenty metres high with 2.5 m thick walls and a corbelled latrine, and the residential tower of the upper ward, built around 1220 and raised around 1330, whose paired windows and knights' hall recall the craftsmanship of the builders of Maulbronn Abbey. A 16th-century manor house contains a chapel of Saint George in its basement and a great hall lit by a triple Gothic window. Divided in the 14th century between the Neippergs, the Weinsbergs and Württemberg, the fortress was abandoned by the family in favour of Klingenberg and then Schwaigern, before being converted around 1850 into an agricultural estate.