Landsehr Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

On the spur of the Karlsberg, 1.5 km south of Obrigheim, where the Luttenbach flows into the Neckar, Landsehr Castle is now no more than a set of ditches and earthworks rising 60 to 70 m above the river. Yet it offers the rare interest of a precisely dated foundation: built in 1289 or early 1290 for the Count Palatine, it was the subject on 25 March 1290 of a report by Raban von Helmstatt to the Palatine vicedominus on its construction and equipment, and three years later it received a garrison of castle knights (Burgmannen). Located near an important crossing of the Neckar, it gave the Palatinate a foothold facing the imperial lands around Wimpfen. Its name first appears in the Treaty of Pavia of 1329, then in the Palatine partition of 1338. As the Palatinate extended its rights over Obrigheim, the fortress lost its purpose and was probably abandoned in the mid-14th century. A wide, deep ditch still isolates the mound that probably carried a residential tower.