Castle
Windeck Castle
🇩🇪 Germany · 12th century
Windeck Castle (German: ) stands on a small hill in Weinheim on the Bergstraße. It was built around 1100 to protect the inhabitants of the Lorsch monastery.
It was hugely damaged in 1674 by the troops of King Louis XIV of France. In 1960, the ruins were restored, the palace walls newly erected and the donjon safeguarded. It was acquired in 1978 by the city of Weinheim. In the 1980s, archaeological examinations and conservation works were carried out, and the ground plan was found, which gave an idea of the dimensions of the fortress. Today, the ruins of a fortress Windeck are classified as a historical monument.
Text adapted from “Windeck Castle (Weinheim)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Windeck Castle ranks #3,482 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #260 of the 349 mapped in Germany. Founded 1110, it is older than 89% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 267 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.
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