Schlossruine Bielriet

En un regard

Le château en bref

On a limestone spur rising some 140 metres above the village of Cröffelbach and the lower Bühler valley, north of Wolpertsdorf, a district of Schwäbisch Hall, lie the remains of Bielriet, one of the oldest castles in the region. Mentioned as early as 1057, it was the seat of free nobles probably related to the counts of Comburg-Rothenburg; one of them served Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Passing around 1220-1230 to the Schenks of Schüpf, later lords of Limpurg, then to the Küchenmeister of Nordenburg, to the Hohenlohe and, as a fief, to the Crown of Bohemia, it was acquired in 1390 by the council of Schwäbisch Hall, which had it blown up with gunpowder. This act brought the town an imperial ban imposed by King Wenceslaus until 1393. What remains is an impressive ditch cut into the shell limestone, a few stretches of wall and the platform of the spur.