Top 20 Castles around Waldenburg

The castle was built between 1679 and 1691 on the site of a medieval moated castle as a four-wing complex by Count Johann Ludwig von Hohenlohe-Künzelsau. From 1679 to 1868 it was a residence of the House of Hohenlohe and from 1873 to 1934 a teachers' seminary. From 1937 to 1939 the building was completely rebuilt and today houses a state gymnasium with a boarding school.

Directly below Maienfels Castle lies the Protestant Castle Church – a Gothic-influenced religious building dating back to 1433. In 1613, the former castle chapel was converted into a church and is still connected to the castle today via a path through the castle wall. The church impresses with its horseshoe gallery, tracery windows, and Art Nouveau furnishings. Particularly noteworthy are the late Impressionist altarpiece "Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at Jacob's Well" by Ernst H. Graeser and the small bell tower with its Italian-style cap.

Maienfels Castle towers high above the Brettach Valley – a medieval hilltop castle dating back to the 13th century, which is still largely intact today. The impressive half-timbered structure of the Gemming Palace is visible from afar and lends the town a fairytale feel. The castle is privately owned but can be visited in the courtyard when the gate is open.

Situated on a hill, up the Bildersteig, a monastery complex awaits you, parts of which can only be visited with a guide

In 1553, Pfedelbach fell to Count Eberhard, founder of the main Hohenlohe-Waldenburg line. Due to Pfedelbach's mild climate, he planned to build a second residence here as a winter residence in addition to his Waldenburg main residence. Between 1568 and 1572, he commissioned the Heilbronn master builder Sebastian Mayer to build a square moated castle with a square courtyard in the Renaissance style in place of the old moated castle. When Eberhard died in 1570 from the injuries he sustained during the "Waldenburg Carnival," his widow, Agathe, Countess of Tübingen, devoted herself to completing the castle and designated it as her widow's residence. With Ludwig Gottfried, the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Pfedelbach line became extinct in 1728, and the property passed to the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein line. The planned extensive Baroque renovation of the building was only partially realized with the new construction of Bartenstein Castle. The magnificent court chapel was built between 1731 and 1732 under Count Ferdinand of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein. After the mediatization, the Württemberg district court was located in Pfedelbach Castle from 1806 to 1840. After the Second World War, the castle served as a poorhouse and fell into rapid disrepair until the municipality acquired the dilapidated building from Princess Clara of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein in 1962 and undertook a comprehensive renovation.

The moated castle in the heart of the town of Neuenstein, dating back to the Staufer period in the 12th century, was once a residence of the Princes of Hohenlohe-Öhringen. Around 1550 it was expanded into an impressive Renaissance residence. Since around 1700 the castle has no longer served as the residence of the House of Hohenlohe, but was used for various other purposes until the Hohenlohe Museum was opened there in 1878.

The pretty Pfedelbach Castle dominates the townscape. You can cycle right past it. The best way to stop off is to have an ice cream or coffee from the bakery right next door.

Bartenau Castle is a castle in Künzelsau in the north-east of Baden-Württemberg. The noble family of Stein is documented in Künzelsau from the 11th century. After they died out, their relatives, such as the Lords of Künzelsau and the Lords of Bartenau, inherited the estate of the Stein family. The von Künzelsau family built their Kunzelsawe Castle around 1248. After the Künzelsau family died out in 1341, their residence became Bartenau Castle. When the Lords of Bartenau also died out, the Lords of Stetten inherited the castle in 1390, which they sold in part to the Archbishopric of Mainz in 1484. Bartenau Castle passed to the House of Hohenlohe through inheritance. Count Johann Ludwig von Hohenlohe-Langenburg-Gleichen had Bartenau Castle demolished in 1679 and built a three-storey castle in the late Renaissance style with four round towers in its place. From 1873 onwards, the building served as a teacher training college, then as an educational institution, and today it houses a state secondary school with boarding school. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Bartenau