Schloss Hermersberg

En un regard

Le château en bref

Standing alone on a plateau some 350 metres above sea level, south-west of Niedernhall, Hermersberg Castle rises about one hundred and fifty metres above the Kocher valley. A former hunting lodge of the Counts of Hohenlohe, it dates back to the 15th century at the latest, the period of the oldest parts of the east wing. Around 1530-1540 Georg I of Hohenlohe added a round staircase tower, and Ludwig Kasimir later enlarged it with a long wing, a curtain wall and a gate tower. At the end of the 16th century a garden and a moat were laid out, before the great hall wing was built between 1599 and 1610. The ensemble combines masonry with half-timbered upper storeys. Dilapidated after centuries in the hands of the Hohenlohe-Öhringen family, it was bought in the early 1970s by the industrialist Reinhold Würth, who restored it and in 1974 made it his family's residence. An artificial lake lies to the east.