Engelburg
Engelburg stands on a hill above Stuttgart’s Mühlhausen district, with a small park surrounding the surviving castle foundations. Low stone remains show the outline of a medieval hilltop stronghold above the neighbourhood. The peaceful setting gives you space to examine the ruins and their relationship with the surrounding landscape.
The site may reach back to the early eighth century, when people possibly knew it as Biberburg. Records from around 700 connect the hill with Alamannic Duke Gotfrid and the Galluskirche. A later castle rose between 1260 and 1280, probably through the work of the Lords of Blankenstein. The Reichs- und Städtekrieg destroyed the building in 1312, leaving its foundations as the clearest surviving evidence.
The original castle occupied about 480 square metres, while its walls measured roughly 1.8 to 2.2 metres thick. Those dimensions make the modest foundations feel substantial, even though most of the structure has disappeared.
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