Nagold (Nagolt) / Calw, Baden-Wuerttemberg

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Nagold

(Nagolt)

From an engraving by a Swiss known as Matthaeus Merian, the Elder (1593-1658)

Copies from Wikipedia: File Nagolt.jpg

1991

From the collection of Judy A. Remmick-Hubert

.1991

From the collection of Judy A. Remmick-Hubert

Hohennagold Castle

From Wikipedia: File: Hohennagold.jpg

This original fortress was built on a mountian top (Schlossberg) about 750 by a Count Ruodbrecht, who is reported to have been the uncle of Charlemagne's  A castle added to or replaced the old in 1100 by Counts of Nagold.  When the  family took up the title of Counts Palatine of Tuebingen in 1145 ,  the castle was expanded in 1153 and again in 1162.  Inheritance by the Counts of Hohenberg brought the castle to them in the 1200s and they expanded and transformed it into their residence.  In 1364 he was purchased by Count of Wuerttemberg.  He added the bastions and towers to the outer ward.  But it's use was interrupted during the Thirty Years' War when the Bavarian troops took control of the area. It was greatly damaged....  In 1646  the castle parts of the castle ruins was torn down leaving a northwest tower which was destroyed during WWII.  However, it has been set up as a national ruin castle and restored to what you presently see in the photo above.