En un regard
Le château en bref
On the western height overlooking Gelbingen, a village in the Kocher valley now part of Schwäbisch Hall, there stood in the Middle Ages a small castle called Neuburg or Neuenburg. The hill on which it stood still bears the name Neuberg, above the alluvial plain of the Lutzel. The fortress seems to have belonged to the Eltershofen family, a lineage of the minor nobility and patriciate of the imperial city of Hall, whose members Eberhard and Philipp are named as owners. Its disappearance was early and unusual: the Eltershofen themselves are said to have dismantled the castle in order to reuse its stones in the chapel of Gelbingen, founded in 1342. A charter of 1339 already mentions an area called Newenburg at the foot of the hill, where a wine press stood. Today almost nothing visible remains, but the place name keeps alive the memory of this medieval fortification of the Kocher valley.