En un regard
Le château en bref
In the forest east of Eberbach, at an altitude of 493 m between the ruins of Eberbach Castle and the summit of the Katzenbuckel, the Emichsburg is an unusual testimony to the Romantic taste for the Middle Ages in the Odenwald. This hunting lodge, designed to look like a small fortified castle, was built in 1828 by Prince Carl of Leiningen, who named it after the Emichsburg at Bockenheim, a former possession of his house in the Palatinate. Enlarged in 1829 after the prince's marriage and topped in 1830 with a tower-like superstructure, it had a short life: uninhabited from 1840, it was partly demolished in 1844, and its tower and kitchen wing were looted during the revolution of 1848. It is also said that the last known lynx of the Odenwald was shot nearby in 1833. Today only the stump of a tower and a few sections of wall remain, on which a forester's house and a shelter were built and later left to decay.