The remains of the Castle can be visited
RuinOberschwarzach-Handthal
Stollburg Castle
The Stollburg castle ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the 442.9 meter high Stollberg, Germany's highest vineyard, in the district of Handthal, a district of the market town of Oberschwarzach in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt in Bavaria. The castle is said to be the birthplace of Walther von der Vogelweide.
The castle was presumably built in the 12th century by the Lords of Stollberg, and in 1151 it came as a donation from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg to the Ebrach Monastery.
During a feud with the Würzburg Bishop Hermann von Lobdeburg, Ludwig von Stollberg was slain by Würzburg riders in 1236, the castle came to the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in 1237 and became the seat of a Würzburg bailiff in 1303.
On May 2, 1525, the castle was destroyed and burned down during the Peasants' War, while the bailiff, Count of Castell, was called to Würzburg to defend the Marienberg fortress against the rebellious peasants.
Description+
The castle belongs to the type of spur castle and is separated from the ridge, which slopes down on three sides, by four neck ditches.
Of the former castle complex, now an archaeological monument, a 14-meter high remnant of the octagonal keep with walls up to 2.5 meters thick is still preserved. The castle ruin also shows smaller wall and vault remnants and a half-buried cellar entrance.
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