Burg Bachenstein

En un regard

Le château en bref

About two kilometres west of Döttingen, a village in the municipality of Braunsbach, the Bachenstein site occupies a wooded spur at an altitude of some 383 metres, between the small valleys of the Rüblinger Bach and the Bachensteiner Bach, tributaries of the Kocher. All that remains of the castle today are two wide ditches cut into the terrain and faint traces of masonry, characteristic of a Burgstall, that is, a vanished stronghold. The castle is associated with a minor noble lineage nicknamed Bacho, attested from 1225 and probably descended from the ministeriales of the Staufen. Probably founded before the middle of the 13th century, it gave its name to the family, which held the lordship of Döttingen. Already in ruins in 1488, it was sold together with Döttingen to the Hohenlohe. A legend attributes its destruction to an expedition against knights turned robbers. The site is considered the predecessor of the moated castle of Döttingen.