Burg Neufels

En un regard

Le château en bref

Set on a rocky spur overlooking the Kupfer valley, at the western edge of the hamlet of Neufels, part of the municipality of Neuenstein in Hohenlohe, Burg Neufels is today no more than a discreet ruin incorporated into private gardens. This modest castle was built in the 13th century by the lords of Stein, before passing to a branch of the Neuenstein family, which took its name from the fortress. Later held jointly by several lines of co-heirs (Ganerben), with a share belonging to the Archbishopric of Mainz, it was besieged in 1395 and then destroyed in 1441 by the troops of the town of Schwäbisch Hall, who regarded it as a nest of robbers. The counts of Hohenlohe, who bought up the shares in the mid-15th century, forbade its reconstruction. What remains is an artificial mound surrounded by a wide ditch, traces of a curtain wall and a massive fragment of the square keep, which has collapsed into the ditch and is overgrown with vegetation.