The remains of the Castle can be visited
CastleFreiamt-Reichenbach
Keppenbach Castle
Keppenbach Castle is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 455.1 m above sea level on an elongated mountain spur of the Schlossberg above the hamlet of Sägplatz and the district of Reichenbach, approximately 1500 meters from the municipality of Freiamt in the Emmendingen district in Baden-Württemberg.
In 1161, Hartmut von Keppenbach (Hartmout de Keppenbach) was mentioned as a ministerialis of the Zähringer and became the ancestral seat of the Lords of Keppenbach. In 1251, the castle was mentioned in an arbitration text between Siegelau and Tennenbach Abbey. By 1336 at the latest, Keppenbach Castle was a Ganerbenburg (jointly inherited castle).
At the end of the 14th century, the castle was destroyed by the Habsburgs, who had extended their sphere of influence to the Breisgau and over Freiburg im Breisgau. The castle was rebuilt by the Lords of Keppenbach at the beginning of the 15th century and destroyed in the German Peasants' War in 1525.
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The former hilltop castle was a small, compact, three-sided shield wall castle, consisting of an upper, middle, and lower bailey with a double-kinked shield wall, which had a thickness of 2.3 meters and a height of 7.5 meters, surrounded by a neck ditch with a width of approximately 30 meters. Significant remains of the former castle complex are still preserved.
Since the castle complex does not have a keep, it is assumed that the tower standing 70 meters further north and 38 meters below the castle belonged to the complex as a keep and was connected to the outer bailey.
Finds from the castle can be viewed in the local museum in the Ottoschwanden district.
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