Wartenberg Castle Ruins

The castle ruins are always worth a visit. From the keep you have an absolutely fantastic panoramic view.

Nice ruin, a detour here is worth it. You can not cross the train tracks, but there is an underpass.

The Wartenberg castle ruins
by Friedrich Schwarz, Lauterbach Castles are nature and history in one. Their presence enhances the landscape and transforms it into a scenery. This synthesis of nature and man-made work will always have the secret love of all those souls who are not frozen in a narrow rationalism . . ." Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (1883-1955) The ruins of Wartenberg Castle lie in the geologically significant Lauterbacher Graben between Angersbach and Bad Salzschlirf on a spur of the Birkich mountain that extends 300 m into the valley. The actual Birkich block reaches a height of 317 m and towers over the castle hill by 43 m. The castle hill is surrounded on three sides by the Lauter, which in earlier times, together with the marshy valley floor to the west, north and east, formed a natural protection. The Birkich and its spur consist essentially of red sandstone, from which most of the building material was probably quarried. For more than half a century, the castle, which was destroyed in 1265 by Abbot Bertho von Leipholz in the Fulda Diocesan Feud, served as a convenient quarry for the inhabitants of the nearby villages, until the renewed interest in local and national history also turned to the Wartenbach, as the castle ruins are popularly called. (Source: gemeinde-wartenberg.de/freizeit-amp-tourismus/burgruine.html)