Sindringer Schloss

En un regard

Le château en bref

Overlooking the upper part of Sindringen, a village now belonging to Forchtenberg in the Kocher valley, Sindringen Castle keeps a powerful medieval keep as its centrepiece. This massive tower, since pierced with large windows, has been adapted for residential use, while fragments of the former curtain wall recall the defensive purpose of the site; the other buildings are more recent. The locality, mentioned as early as 1037 in the foundation charter of Öhringen, passed from the Counts of Calw to the Lords of Weinsberg, and then in the early 14th century to the House of Hohenlohe, which made it the seat of an administrative district. In 1363 Emperor Charles IV granted it town and market rights, although the settlement never truly developed into a town. After the Hohenlohe partitions, the castle belonged in turn to the Waldenburg and Pfedelbach branches and, from 1728, to the Catholic Bartenstein line. A privately owned and inhabited property, it can only be viewed from the outside.