En un regard
Le château en bref
In the municipality of Schöntal, south of the village of Aschhausen, the site of the vanished hamlet of Urhausen preserves the memory of a small castle that has now completely disappeared from the landscape. It was a seigneurial tower castle set at about 245 metres above sea level, on the lower part of a meander spur overlooking the right bank of the Erlenbach. Written records mention it for the first time in 1228 among the possessions of the lords of Boxberg; a family bearing the name Urhausen then appears in the sources between 1308 and 1505. After several changes of ownership, by 1434 the site was no more than a castle site with no standing buildings, which then passed to the lords of Aschhausen, its immediate neighbours. Listed in the inventory of archaeological monuments of Baden-Württemberg, the place illustrates the density of small medieval noble fortifications in northern Hohenlohe, many of which have left nothing but their name.