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Steinsberg Castle is a castle in the village of Weiler, a suburb of Sinsheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. History. The castle was first mentioned in the ...
Physical map of the Kraichgau (within brown line) View from the Ravensburg [] near Sulzfeld over the Kraichgau hills to their highest point, Burg Steinsberg (centre, on the horizon) Steinsberg Castle on the eponymous hill, the highest point of the Kraichgau The prominent Catholic parish church of Waibstadt Ruins of the water castle in Kraichtal-Menzingen
A castle built on commission by Charles Eugene for his wife Franziska von Hohenheim. [2] Construction dragged on for 21 years, finally ending with the Duke's death in 1793. [ 3 ] After a further 20 years of continued maintenance of the gardens surrounding the abandoned and decaying palace , King William I and his wife Catherine founded an ...
Ardez and Steinsberg Castle c. 1870. Etching by Heinrich Müller. Ardez is first mentioned circa 840 as Ardezis. Up to the 19th century, it was also known by the German name of Steinsberg. Lords de Ardetz are documented for the period 1161–1310.
In 1348 the Bishop pledged the castle and lands to the Planta family for a loan of 150 Marks. In 1359, the Bishop again pledged the castle to the Lords of Katzenstein for 700 Gulden. [4] In 1411 it was pledged to Georg Scheck. Despite attempts from the Bishop to regain ownership of the castle, the Scheck family retained it until 1502. [3]
The family built Steinsberg Castle around 1200 as vassals of the Hohenstaufen dynasty From the 12th to the 14th century the family gained the largest secular territory in East Swabia. The county of Oettingen lay around the imperial city of Nördlingen in present-day Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg.
Steinsberg is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. It belongs to the association community of Diez. References
Schaumburg Castle (German: Schloss Schaumburg) is a schloss in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, south of Balduinstein near Limburg an der Lahn. It was owned by the former ruling family of Waldeck and Pyrmont , and it served as the retirement residence of SS General Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont .