Top 6 Castles around Ohlweiler

A really great and well-kept area with rest areas, panoramic loungers, swings, hammocks - a great local recreation area. Horn Castle is located about 600 m west of Horn in a marshy headwater area of the Klingelbach. The impressive 4-5 m high, round castle mound has a diameter of 40 m. A 9-12 m wide, in places 1.5 m deep moat surrounds the castle mound. A well is said to have been uncovered in the partly silted up, partly still swampy ditch. The round hill plateau with a diameter of approx. 20 m shows an approx. 2 m deep trough or a wall-like elevation that encloses the plateau. horn-hunsrueck.de/horner-burg

A really great and well-kept area with rest areas, panoramic loungers, swings, hammocks - a great local recreation area. Horn Castle is located about 600 m west of Horn in a marshy headwater area of the Klingelbach. The impressive 4-5 m high, round castle mound has a diameter of 40 m. A 9-12 m wide, in places 1.5 m deep moat surrounds the castle mound. A well is said to have been uncovered in the partly silted up, partly still swampy ditch. The round hill plateau with a diameter of approx. 20 m shows an approx. 2 m deep trough or a wall-like elevation that encloses the plateau. https://horn-hunsrueck.de/horner-burg/

Beautiful idyllic rest area at the Simmerbach

Nice rest area near the Simmerbach

A beautiful refuge at the fork in the road near the Wildburghöhe.

Today's break place - we were glad to have found a shelter halfway through the tour, since it was quite cold and windy and there was an interesting information board about the Wildburg

The old Gemünden The "Patch of Gemünden" Even from a distance, Gemünden is a picturesque sight. The houses of the actual “Fleckens”, surrounded by the Simmerbach, nestle close to the Schlossberg. The towers of the Protestant and Catholic Church rise from their midst, and high above them on a rocky terrace is the castle of the Salis Soglio family. Numerous idyllic corners and beautiful old half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries give the place a special charm. Unfortunately, war and fire destroyed most of the old houses. The story mentions the place for the first time in 1304 as the property of the Counts of Sponheim. The city charter was granted between 1325 and 1337. Nothing can be seen of the former city fortifications. The first castle on the rock above the Simmerbach goes back to the dynasty of the Counts of Sponheim. They built the residential tower around 1350, of which only the basement is upright today. In 1514 Fritz von Schmidtburg acquired Gemünden Castle from the Count Palatine von Simmern and expanded it. It remained in the possession of the Schmidtburger for more than, 300 years. During the Palatinate War of Succession (1689), the castle was largely destroyed by explosions and fires. It took more than a quarter of a century until today's castle (1716-1728) with four huge round towers in the early baroque style was rebuilt on the foundations of the old castle complex. With the marriage of the last Schmidtburger to the Austrian captain Anton Freiherr von Salis Soglio from Graubünden in 1810, the property passed to the current owners. The coat of arms of both families, the Schmidtburger buckle and the willow tree of those of Salis, are carved in stone above the castle portal. In the middle of the 19th century the stables were built on the west side of the castle. In 1937/38, the intermediate wing was extended to include a kitchen extension in a successful manner in terms of monument preservation. In the two old towers of the former castle there is a chapel with the grave monument of Fritsch von Schmidtburg. Grave monuments of the later Schmidtburgers are in the choir of the Protestant church in Gemünden. Source: Text information board

Great view from up there