Hohennagold Castle

Hohennagold Castle is a ruined fort situated on a hill, the so-known as Schlossberg, overlooking the Black Forest city of Nagold. The hill consists predominantly of porphyritic rock. The ruins represent a quite well-preserved 12^th century castle. The keep backstage partitions, a tower inside the north-western corner of the complex as well as the outer ward with half of-spherical and angular towers, are still seen. Around the fort there appears to had been a moat.

An early medieval fortification become likely erected at the vicinity of the future citadel around 750 by way of Count Ruodbrecht, one in every of Charlemagne's uncles. The original fort was constructed round 1100 by the Counts of Nagold, who have become the Counts palatine of Tubingen in 1145. The fort complicated changed into appreciably expanded among 1153 and 1162. In the center of the 13th century the castle exceeded into the ownership of the Counts of Hohenberg.

Thereafter, one department of this circle of relatives referred to as itself Counts of Nagold and had the fortress converted into their house in the thirteenth and 14th century. In 1364 the sold the citadel to the Counts of Wurttemberg. The new owners added bastions and towers to the outer ward and had the citadel occupied through their ministeriales. Towards the stop of the 30 Years' War, the fortress turned into conquered by Bavarian troops in 1645 and critically broken. In 1646 the remnants of the citadel were pulled down.