Niederhaus Castle Ruins

Very very nice,
Information board with castle plan, what is what,
I liked that very much
definitely worth a detour

Beautiful ruin
The ruin is walkable
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Niederhaus

The castle was built in the 12th century as the ancestral seat of the noble free von Hürnheim. They came here from the Worms and Speyer area. In the 10th century they still had a farm in Hürnheim themselves. The original name of the complex was Hürnheim Castle, later the fortress was called Niederhaus to distinguish it from the nearby Hochhaus Castle.Staufer column in front of the castle inaugurated in 2012
It is purely speculative whether there was a fort in the place of today's castle. In any case, the impressive double moats (see description) indicate such an early medieval castle complex. Only a few kilometers away on the Weiherberg there is a huge Hungarian fortress (10th century) in the forest, so the Niederhaus castle site could well have served as a Hungarian refuge.In 1379 troops of the Swabian Association of Cities devastated the castle complex, which was quickly repaired afterwards. With Hans Johann, the lords of Hürnheim died out in the male line in 1585, and the daughter sold the castle to the Counts of Oettingen-Oettingen for 38,000 guilders in 1597.In 1633 (Thirty Years' War) a Swedish troop of horsemen demands provisions from the castle garrison, which - because of the small number of riders and the imagined impregnability of the Niederhaus - is refused. Allegedly the daughter of the bailiff is said to have even shot the Swedish captain. After the Swedes had requested reinforcements, they besieged the castle and penetrated into the courtyard through a breach in the water tower during the night.The resulting destruction does not seem to have been so serious, the castle was repaired again and sold to the Teutonic Order in 1709 for 53,000 guilders.When the Teutonic Order was dissolved in the course of secularization in 1805, the castle complex passed to the newly founded Kingdom of Bavaria.