Zavelstein Castle

The ruins of Zavelstein Castle, a former hill citadel, stand at 560 m above sea degree on a hill spur above the Teinach valley on the southeastern edge of the municipality of Bad Teinach Zavelstein in the county of Calw within the south German nation of Baden Wurttemberg. Archaeological investigations found out that the fortress must have been constructed across the center of the 13^th century. The first written record of the castle dates to 1303, from which its miles clear that a Herr Richelin, a knight in Zavelstein, had lived inside the castle, possibly from 1280. By 1311 Zavelstein surfaces within the files as a Wurttemberg castle and was for that reason owned by means of the counts of Wurttemberg.

Together with their lordship of the castles of Neuenburg, Calw, Fautsberg, Wildberg and Nagold, they have been able to keep their affect over the newly obtained territories in the northeastern Black Forest. In the 14^th century, the citadel changed into often set free as a fief or used as a safety. In 1342, Paul of Giltlingen bought the fief of the citadel for 1,530 pounds of hellers to Count Gotz of Tubingen.