Warberg Castle Ruins and Well

Warberg CastleWarberg Castle, formerly known as Wartberg, is a ruined hilltop castle on the Warnberg near the town of Neunburg vorm Wald.
The first indirect mention of the castle was around 1138, when Countess Adelheid von Warberg donated her estate near Traitsching to the Ensdorf monastery. Elisabeth von Sulzbach, the daughter of Count Gebhard III, married Count Rapoto I of Ortenburg around 1159 and received Warberg Castle as a wedding gift. In 1188, after the death of Count Gebhard III, her sons Heinrich I and Rapoto II of Ortenburg inherited Warberg Castle.
The first probable destruction probably took place in the war between the Counts of Ortenburg and the Counts of Bogen, Passau, Bohemia and Austria in the years 1192 to 1199.
The castle remained in the possession of the Ortenburgers until 1261, in the same year the son of Count Friedrich von Truhendingen and Anna von Ortenburg, daughter of Heinrich I von Ortenburg, sold Warberg to Duke Ludwig the Strict.
The reason that led to the final destruction of Warberg Castle could be related to the military invasions of the Bohemian King Ottokar II of Bohemia in the second half of the 13th century. There is no reliable evidence for this, however, although the Schwarzhofen monastery, which is located not far from the castle, is said to have also been destroyed in the course of this war before 1285.
The castle was therefore abandoned between 1261 and 1283, perhaps as early as 1278 if the Second Bohemian War and with it the death of Ottokar II in the Battle of the Marchfeld in that year are the reason for the abandonment. The Warbergers were mentioned in documents several times up until 1495 (Balthasar the Warberger of Kürnberg), presumably a ministerial family that continued to name itself after the destroyed castle.Between 1991 and 1993, an excavation was carried out by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, during which some of the walls were uncovered. Only a few remains of the walls and the well remain of the former 150 by 50 meter castle complex with its Salian-Staufian ring wall and layered water well. Finds can be found in the Schwarzachtaler Heimatmuseum in Neunburg vorm Wald.Source: Excerpts from wikipedia.de

Remains of a hill fort from the 12th century.

An interesting destination from Neunburg