Burg Boxberg

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Le château en bref

In the centre of the small town of Boxberg, in the Main-Tauber-Kreis, the remains of the old castle recall a fortress with a particularly turbulent history. Mentioned as early as the 11th century, the site became around 1144 the seat of the lords of Boxberg, before passing in 1287 to the Knights Hospitaller of Wölchingen and then to the knightly Rosenberg family. In 1430 the Rosenbergs built a new castle on the foundations of the first, which was destroyed as early as 1470 by a coalition of neighbouring princes exasperated by their raids. Rebuilt, it was again besieged and blown up in June 1523 by the Swabian League during its campaign against the robber knights, an episode captured in a woodcut by Hans Wandereisen. A third castle, which passed to the Electoral Palatinate in 1561, survived until its demolition in 1857. Acquired by the town in 1893, the site preserves three towers, casemates cut into the rock, sections of wall and a restored well.