Windeck Castle

Windeck Castle additionally Old Windeck Castle is a ruined Black Forest spur citadel which stands on a 378 meter high spur inside the Buhl district of Kappelwindeck within the county of Rastatt in the German nation of Baden Wurttemberg. The citadel changed into constructed around 1200 by using the lords of Windeck. The circle of relatives, probable of Franconia starting place and based totally inside the Ortenau, owned wealthy allodial estates and held several fiefs from numerous liege lords, which includes the empire, the Prince Bishopric of Strasburg, the counts of Eberstein in addition to the Vogtei of Schwarzach Abbey as an After lichen of the bur graves of Nuremberg.

The first documentary proof dates to 1212 whilst a positive Melchior von Windeck comes to light and in 1248 the lords of Windeck are cited in a file at Schwarzach Abbey as ministeriales of the Bishop of Strasburg. The citadel itself however is first noted in 1335. It became a collectively controlled castle or Ganerbenburg very early on as a result of divisions of inheritance. In the early 13^th century the New Windeck Castle Burg Neu Windeck was built by means of a department of the circle of relatives close to Lauf within reach of Old Windeck.