Duttenberg Castle

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Le château en bref

On a ridge overlooking the Jagst valley, at the eastern end of the village of Duttenberg, today a district of Bad Friedrichshall, Duttenberg Castle is among the earliest attested seigneurial sites in the region: it appears as early as 798/799 under the name "Dudunburc". A former Carolingian manorial court that became a castle, it formed a fortified quadrilateral next to the church of Saint Kilian, itself enclosed by a wall. Over the centuries, the site passed from the lords of Weinsberg and their vassals of Bieringen to the Wittstatt family, to the Palatinate, and then to the Teutonic Order, which owned it entirely in 1668. A fire in 1673 cost the residence its two half-timbered upper storeys. Sold in 1769 to Joseph Reichert, the estate took the name Reißenhof in the 19th century, after the Reiß family. Today there remain a manor house, a wine press, outbuildings, the stump of a tower, and remnants of the village wall and of a ditch.