Top 4 Castles around Landensberg

The Schneeburg near Welden (District of Augsburg, Bavaria) is an early medieval ring rampart that served as a refuge castle in the 9th to 10th centuries to defend against Hungarian invasions. The site is located about 1.5 km south of Welden on a spur above the Laugnatal valley. It was an important defensive structure that functioned as a protective castle for the population and a troop assembly point. The fortification consisted of wood-earth constructions and ramparts, with the eastern side showing typical steps for defense against Magyar horsemen. Today, the earthworks and ditches are preserved as an archaeological monument, with the Ludwig-Ganghofer-Rundwanderweg circular hiking trail leading through the area.

The ringfort of Schneeburg is not the remains of a castle, but rather an archaeological monument that only reveals itself upon closer inspection. There were never any towers or stone walls here – the fortification consisted of earthworks, wooden palisades, and timber structures. Today, primarily ditches, ramparts, and the shape of the site are visible in the landscape. Historians assume that the oldest traces of Schneeburg date back to the Bronze Age. In the Middle Ages, it offered the local population protection from Hungarian invasions.

Parts of an old castle that is permanently secured and with the appropriate information boards

The first stone castle was built in the 12th century as the seat of the Margraves of Burgau. From 1231 to 1301 these "milites de zusemekke" appear several times in the written sources. The castle above the Zusamtal was first destroyed in 1388 during the "City War". The troops of the imperial city of Augsburg stormed the residence after Bishop Burkhard von Ellerbach had ordered a raid on an imperial city trading train. In 1430 the Augsburg cathedral chapter bought the castle. 1485 Emperor Friedrich III. the cathedral chapter the blood ban for the reign of Zusameck. In the course of secularization fell to the Bavarian state. The castle was already in very poor condition and parts of it had to be demolished in 1801. Today only small remains of the ring wall are visible. A large part of the stone material was also taken for the construction of the Augsburg-Ulm railway line.

The castle was probably built in the 10th century as the seat of the Lords Fraß, who are said to have distinguished themselves in the Battle of Lechfeld (955). This family of servants to the bishops of Augsburg later called themselves "von Wolfsperch" (1233) after the castle and had a wolf in their coat of arms. The earthworks and remains of the large keep have survived from the high medieval castle complex.

Around 1850 the preserved castle chapel was renovated and redesigned in a neo-Gothic style. At the same time, the Stations of the Cross for the chapel were erected under Pastor Egger. In 1852 the Calvary was added on the plateau of the main castle cone.

Nice castle. The castle garden is not accessible, but at the back you can see a deer enclosure.

Castle festival on the 1st weekend of August