No. 74654
Burg Leofels
Germany
CastleRuin13th century
No. 69258
No. 69258 · 49.187 N, 10.007 E
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Burg Lobenhausen is a castle in Germany, listed as reference No. 69258.
Burg Lobenhausen is a castle in Germany with origins associated with the 11th century.
See all castles in GermanyBurg Lobenhausen stands in Lobenhausen, Germany; it was erected in the 11th century by the Counts of Lobenhausen, a medieval German noble family. The estate was established in the 11th century under the Counts of Lobenhausen (active 1085–1344), and the site appears in the written record in 1295.
During the social upheaval of 1525 the castle suffered partial destruction in the Peasants’ War. Repairs and rebuilding took place after 1525, returning parts of the stronghold to use. At various moments the castle passed into the hands of the Lords of Hohenlohe; in 1645, amid the fighting of the Thirty Years’ War, troops plundered the site and again caused partial destruction. After that damage the castle’s fortunes declined and it moved into progressive decay during the 18th century.
In 1856 the historic family name was revived by royal act when the King of WĂĽrttemberg granted the title von Lobenhausen to Prince Heinrich, son of FĂĽrst Friedrich Karl zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, on the occasion of his morganatic marriage to Anna Therese von Landzert. Anna Therese was widowed in 1859 without children and is recorded in genealogical notices up to 1874.
Condition
The site is a hill castle occupying the high eastern end of the Schlossberg ridge at about 412.6 metres above sea level. The castle crowns an elongated ridge formed by an old meander of the Jagst river; that river left a former channel on the southwest slope roughly 20 to 30 metres below the hill, and today the Jagst runs more than 50 metres below the castle to the northeast at the foot of the slope. This topographic situation defines the castle’s original defensive setting.
Archaeological evidence preserves only limited fragments of the castle’s encircling wall. These fragments of the ring wall survive in a fragmentary state and later became part of a farmhouse, showing direct reuse of medieval masonry in a post‑medieval building. The chapel associated with the castle stood against the southern face of that enclosure; a castle chapel was attached to the south side of the ring wall, indicating a religious presence within the compound.
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