The remains of the Castle can be visited
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Neckarburg Castle (Ruin)
The Neckarburg, also known as Hinterburg, is a vanished castle on an elongated Umlaufberg (meander spur) in a Neckar loop near the municipality of Villingendorf in the district of Rottweil in Baden-Württemberg and is owned by the Count of Bissingen and Nippenburg.
The hilltop castle was built in the 8th century, gifted in 793 by the Alemannic Count Berthold to St. Gallen Abbey, and came into the possession of Reinher I von Rüti from 1315. Later, the castle was owned by the Counts of Sulz, was converted into a Renaissance castle in the 16th century, and demolished in 1580.
Of the former castle complex, the encircling walls, which were restored in 1984, are still preserved.
Since 1990, Radio Neckarburg, a local radio station named after the Neckarburg, has also existed.
Below the castle ruins stands the Neckarburg wooden bridge, built in 1951.
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