Glatt Castle

Sulz am Neckar, Germany

The moated Glatt castle one of the few preserved water castles in the Germany and one of the oldest Renaissance castles in southern Germany. It was built and owned by the Neuneck family from the 13th century until 1671. The 13th century castle was converted into a Renaissance style in 1533-1540 by Reinhard von Neuneck. Today it hosts a museum center.

References:

Wikipedia

Address

Schloß 1, Sulz am Neckar, Germany

See all sites in Sulz am Neckar

Details

Founded: 1533-1540
Category: Castles and fortifications in Germany
Historical period: Reformation & Wars of Religion (Germany)

More Information

www.schloss-glatt.de

Rating

4.6/5 (based on Google user reviews)

User Reviews

Adrian Koh (5 months ago)
Nice place for a slow afternoon. The ice cream in the Schloss Cafe was excellent!

Igor Loboda (6 months ago)
Nice surrounding and well organised walkthrough musemum.

Oliver Stoeckle (20 months ago)
historic place. lot of things to do. visit this place already twice and had coffee and cake. Cakes need definitely improvement first time I had a black forest cake not to my taste flavorless and no love. second time I tried the cheesecake and the bottom was burned. other than that staff very nice and helpfull.

Karin Brown-Witt (2 years ago)
Very interesting place. The museum is worth seeing. The Café House next to it is a real jewel. The waitress very friendly and the cakes are awesome. The small town has a mini golf. A place for the whole family to see.

Luc Harmsen (3 years ago)
A cute small Middle Ages castle with lots of armory and history. Of course our main goal was the Schwatzwelderkirschtorte…

Featured Historic Landmarks, Sites & Buildings

Finest Norman castles in Italy

Exploring the History of Northern Poland

Discovering Slovenia's Historic Wonders

Photo from Flickr, copyright Michel Couprie

Historic Site of the week

Briançon Fortress

The historical centre of Briançon is a strongly fortified town, built by Vauban to defend the region from Austrians in the 17th century. Its streets are very steep and narrow, though picturesque. Briançon lies at the foot of the descent from the Col de Montgenèvre, giving access to Turin, so a great number of other fortifications have been constructed on the surrounding heights, especially towards the east.

The Savoyards made two raids into French territory in 1691 and 1692. As a result, Vauban was dispatched to inspect the frontier defences, which had been ill-equiped to deal with the attack from Savoy. He returned to the area in 1700 to check on the progress that had been made since his first visit. When Vauban visited Briançon, work on the defences had already started under a local engineer, Monsieur d"Angrogne in 1692.