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Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels)
Burg Hohenfels (Hohenfels)
Hohenfels Castle (Neu-Hohenfels) is a medieval spur castle on a forested hill ridge in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in the high Middle Ages and first recorded in 1292, it passed to the Teutonic Order in 1506 and in modern times has housed a school and been converted into a convention centre.
Its prime
1420
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1420
What Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels) looked like in its prime.
A compact, multi-winged castle of pale plastered walls and steep red clay-tile roofs arranged around an inner courtyard on a wooded hill spur. The complex has two small round towers with conical tile roofs at corners, long rectangular residential ranges with rows of dormer windows, and at least one stepped gable end. Outbuildings and a large barn cluster to the north-east; dense mixed woodland falls away from the castle on the south and west slopes.
Its story
The story of Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels).
Hohenfels Castle, New Hohenfels, is a medieval spur castle above the village of Kalkofen in the county of Konstanz, first recorded in 1292. It was founded by the lords of Hohenfels, who settled here in the 12th century, as the seat of the Neu-Hohenfels branch of the family.
When the Neuhohenfels line died out in 1352, the barony passed by marriage to the lords of Jungingen, who largely reunited the two Hohenfels estates through marriage in the early 15th century, before the territory was divided again in 1441 and fell into decay. After the death in 1501 of Ulrich, the last male Jungingen, his sister Anna sold the Barony of Neuhohenfels to the Teutonic Order in 1506.
The estate then belonged to the Teutonic Order's Landkomturei Altshausen, and later passed through the hands of the princely House of Hohenzollern to the School of Schloss Salem. A boarding school occupied the castle until July 2017; the school sold it in 2018, and it has since been converted into a convention centre.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1420.
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Clans who held Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels).
The families that held Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels) for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Hohenfels
Seat of the lords of Hohenfels from the 12th century until the Neu-Hohenfels line died out in 1352.
Jungingen
Held by the lords of Jungingen, 1352–1506, when Anna of Jungingen sold the barony to the Teutonic Order.
