En un regard
Le château en bref
The hamlet of Hopfach, nestled in the Bühler valley upstream of Cröffelbach in the municipality of Wolpertshausen, was overlooked in the Middle Ages by a small castle whose site can still be made out to the north of the village. The stronghold occupied a steep height called Himmelreich, a typical position for the slope castles that watched over the deep valleys of the Hall region. Its known owners belonged to a minor noble family called von Brunnen, several of whose members appear in charters between 1268 and 1314, notably Conrad in 1268 and Seifried in 1280. The later fate of the fortress remained obscure, even to the authors of the official description of the district in the 19th century. On the ground there remain overgrown wall remains, as well as an earthen rampart and a ditch, discreet witnesses of a medieval Burgstall set in a landscape of forests and meadows.