The remains of the Castle can be visited
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Daisbach Castle (Ruin)
Daisbach Castle and Palace is a castle ruin (palace ruin) in the village of Daisbach, today a district of the city of Waibstadt in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.
The freely accessible ruin of the former moated castle and later moated palace is located in the center of Daisbach near the Protestant church in a park with a lake at the source of the Daisbach stream.
The moated castle was probably built around 1200 and first mentioned in a document in 1366, when Kuntz von Massenheim sold it and the village to the Lords of Venningen, a Kraichgau knightly family. Around 1400, extensions and alterations took place. In 1446, the daughter, who was married to Matthias von Rammung, inherited the complex, and in 1497, Albrecht V. Göler von Ravensburg came into its possession. In 1607, Emperor Rudolf II confirmed the Göler family's ownership of the "fortress," which was then destroyed in the Thirty Years' War.
In 1730, Karl Eberhard von Göler began rebuilding the castle, mentioned as a "completely new palace," which remained unfinished due to the builder's death. In 1844, the emergency roof collapsed. The complex fell into disrepair, served as a quarry, and only the vaulted cellar was still used for storage.
In 1929, initial renovation measures were carried out with a concrete slab over the cellar. In 1957, the owner successfully resisted a demolition order issued by the Sinsheim district office due to the risk of collapse, paying a fine. In 1983, the complex passed from the Göler von Ravensburg family into the possession of the city of Waibstadt. In 1987, renovation measures began.
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Today, the ruin shows the remains of an unfinished rectangular Baroque palace with a round stair tower in the Renaissance style of the predecessor complex. On the south side was a compact two-story residential building. Next to the stair tower is the two-part vaulted cellar with a round-arched entrance on the north side, whose floor is above the lake, which was formerly part of the moat. The outer walls with windows are still preserved up to the first floor and were heavily reinforced on the vulnerable east side. At the northeast corner, there are still two wall remnants that possibly connected to another building or a wall. At the northwest corner, there is a corner ashlar with a "Neidkopf" (envy head) and an unexplained inscription "1400."
Above the palace courtyard passage is the alliance coat of arms of Karl Eberhard von Göler and his wife Katharina Elisabetha Helwica, née von Winkelmann. The palace courtyard, at the site of the former outer bailey, is still the seat of the Barons Göler von Ravensburg today.
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