Flinsbach Castle

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Le château en bref

East of the village of Flinsbach, a district of Helmstadt-Bargen in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, a spur of the Hohenberg rising to about 240 m preserves the traces of a small vanished castle, today a mere "Burgstall". Its builders remain unknown: the lords of Hirschhorn or the counts of Hohenberg, who held property in Flinsbach in the 14th century, are suggested. The pottery found, dating from the late 12th to the late 13th century, leaves the founding date open. The site can still be read in the terrain: a neck ditch some forty metres long, 5 m deep and up to 15 m wide isolates a core of about 20 × 30 m, where a depression suggests the location of a tower, and an outer bailey of about 20 × 10 m. Fragments of 13th-century stove tiles and food remains point to a comfortable residence. In the absence of finds from the 15th century, the castle seems to have been abandoned before that time; its stones were later used to build the village houses.