Geyersburg

En un regard

Le château en bref

Perched on a narrow wooded ridge above the left bank of the Kocher, at an altitude of about 320 metres, the Geyersburg is the ruin of a spur castle in the municipality of Untermünkheim, near the hamlet of Lindenhof and less than a kilometre from the hamlet of Sülz. Built in 1391 by the Feldner, a patrician family of Schwäbisch Hall one of whose members bore the nickname Geyer, it later passed to the town of Hall and then, as a Hohenlohe fief, to the lords of Münkheim. Its most remarkable feature is a three-storey residential tower of shell-limestone rubble with an octagonal plan, rare in the region, and walls about one and a half metres thick. Cross ditches and a shield wall protected the approach along the ridge. Already ruinous in the 15th century, the fortress served as a refuge for rebellious peasants in 1525. Consolidated in 1982, it can be visited freely via a forest path.