Wasserschloss Schwarzach

En un regard

Le château en bref

In the heart of Unterschwarzach, one of the two villages that make up the municipality of Schwarzach in the Neckar-Odenwald district, stands a former moated castle whose present silhouette combines medieval remains with a late eighteenth-century residence. The structure is said to have been built in the early fourteenth century by the cathedral chapter of Worms. As early as 1319, Konrad of Weinsberg transferred the fief to the Electoral Palatinate with the consent of Worms. In the early seventeenth century, several noble families, including the Landschad von Steinach and the Helmstatt, successively held it in pledge while the buildings fell into decay. In 1634 a Palatine revenue office was installed there, without the building being properly maintained. Works carried out around 1780 and 1800 produced the manor house visible today, built on the remains of the fortress. Later passing to Baden, the site became a forester's lodge, a function it still retains. Sections of the curtain wall and its corner towers can still be seen, one of them resting on a ring of corbels. Privately owned, it can be viewed from the outside.