Top 7 Castles around Wieseth

When I saw her, I was completely smitten. She sits there, clutching her handbag tightly, lost in thought. What is she thinking about? She must love this spot, where she braves all kinds of weather. She gazes at a castle that seems to have sprung from a fairytale. Or is she waiting for a prince?

Three-story two-wing building with plastered structures and gable roof, 1720/24

"...Feuchtwangen is a tranquil little town with a very interesting old town. It is rightly one of the many lovely places along the Romantic Road. So if you are here, take the opportunity to visit the historical sights of Feuchtwangen. Your sightseeing tour can be rounded off perfectly in one of the cafés and restaurants in Feuchtwangen..." More information about Feuchtwangen at: https://www.netreisetagebuch.de/feuchtwangen-sehenswuerdigkeiten/

Feuchtwangen (Franconian Feichtwang) is a town in the Ansbach district of Middle Franconia. With over 12,000 inhabitants and 137 km², it is the largest municipality in the district in terms of population and area, and the second largest municipality in Middle Franconia in terms of area after Nuremberg, and is located directly on the Romantic Road. The town is really beautiful and much less crowded than other places on the Romantic Road.

Keep and moat - seems to have sprung from a fairy tale.

Construction of the moated castle by Ludwig von Eyb (III) in the late 14th century. Very well preserved piece of jewelry 🏰

Nice moated castle. If you are around you should take a look.

The castle has been owned by the von Crailsheim family for 471 years (as of 2021). As good Christians, the deceased lords and ladies of the castle as well as some guests received their final resting place in their own crypt. On their search for the spy, the French found, among others, the Swedish Colonel Ritter von Holz, a relative of the Crailsheims, who had rested in full uniform in a heavy oak coffin since the Thirty Years' War. Looters stole his uniform skirt soon after the coffin was closed. Today he only wears his heavy leather riding boots. When looking at the mummy of Sophie Luise von Kniestätt (deceased 1690), even hardened soldiers may have lost their appetite for a short time. For decades it has been puzzled as to whether Frau von Kniestätt was really dead when she was put in the coffin. Or whether she woke up in the container, but was not heard by anyone in the crypt and died miserably in the dark. Next to her was a child mummy without a head. Really scary. The Knight of Wood's feet are still in his heavy riding boots. The good state of preservation of the mummies also gave rise to all sorts of hypotheses (natural radioactivity, a curse?) At least the explanation for the mummification is simple. The crypt is not in some damp and musty cellar, but in a former battlement of the castle, which was used as a burial place in the 17th century. There is constant air circulation so that the dead dry out quickly. Two of the Sommersdorfer mummies are currently traveling through the USA in the exhibition "Mummies of the World": (as of August 2021).