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Location: Hainsfarth, Danube-Ries, Altmühltal, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Jewish Cemetery Steinhart – Steinhart Castle Ruins loop from Megesheim

9.21km

02:31

140m

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2. Hahnenkammsee – Hahnenkammsee Circular Trail loop from Hechlingen am See

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250m

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3. View of Steinhart – Steinhart Castle Ruins loop from Hüssingen

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01:25

90m

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Ingo Weiß

May 27, 2023

In the 12th century, Marquard Spet de Steinenhart, who was named as a witness in a document in 1120, probably built the castle above the village of Steinhart and in 1130 a "Bertholdus Späth, nobilis de Steinhart" was mentioned. Further mentions of the Spete took place in 1167 with Heinrich Spet and Bertold Spet 1180-1183. From 1282 the Lords of Spet called themselves Spete von Steinhart (the "late von Steinhart"). In 1282 the Spetsche property was divided into two lines, with part coming to Faimingen an der Donau, today a part of the town of Lauingen "Old Castle" destroyed in the war for the Eichstätt fiefdom and not rebuilt. The Jewish cemetery has been located on the castle hill of the abandoned castle with a ring-shaped moat, the Burgstall Steinhart, also known as the Judenbuck, since the 18th century. After Herman Spet received permission to build a new fortress in Steinhart in 1328, the castle stable became strategically more favorable The new Steinhart Castle was built, today also called the "Old Castle". After 1339, the castle changed hands and came to the Counts of Öttingen, who sold the property to the von Gundelsheim family in 1359. After the castle was already in poor structural condition in 1532 , it changed hands and was probably destroyed in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War. The ruins have been privately owned since 1971. Significant remnants of the enclosing walls of the former rectangular castle complex with an outer bailey on a trapezoidal ground plan are still preserved, with hump ashlars with notched edges at the corners.

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Location: Hainsfarth, Danube-Ries, Altmühltal, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Steinhart Castle Ruins

1. Jewish Cemetery Steinhart – Steinhart Castle Ruins loop from Megesheim

2. Hahnenkammsee – Hahnenkammsee Circular Trail loop from Hechlingen am See

3. View of Steinhart – Steinhart Castle Ruins loop from Hüssingen

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