Quelle: Website `Raitbach.de`
The market in Raitbach offers cheese, fruit and vegetables, bread and much more. There will be grilled sausages and cold drinks in the festival hall car park, Raitbach 33.
The Förderkreis Ruine Turmhölzle provides information about its work.
The moat of Neu-Waldeck Castle on a rocky spur above Tegernau in the small Wiesental valley. Photo: Wolfgang Richter
The noble family of Waldeck played an important role in the settlement history of the Middle, Small and Upper Wiesental. Despite this importance, however, little is known about its members. The lecture will attempt to give an overview of the family's genealogy, their possessions, their family relationships and their heirs and successors on the basis of historical sources. Particular attention will be paid to the castles that can possibly be attributed to the Lords of Waldeck, including the ruins of Turmhölzle near Raitbach.
This lecture is organised in cooperation with the Stadtmuseum Schopfheim.
Location: Stadtmuseum Schopfheim, Wallstraße 10, 79650 Schopfheim
Literature reference: Stephan E. Maurer: Die Herren von Waldeck. In: Das Markgräflerland, Band 2013, S. 121–138 Digitalisat der UB Freiburg
The southern palace wall, looking north. Photo: Wolfgang Richter.
On June 14, 2025, the support group is planning a work assignment at the ruins: removal of growing bushes and trees from the ruin walls and reconstruction of the crumbling southern palace wall, again as a dry stone wall as successfully carried out on the ring wall last autumn. This section of the palace wall is deteriorating more and more. In this area, for example, there is a narrow window to the first floor of the palas, which was still completely preserved after the 1981 excavation and has now almost completely disintegrated.
If you would like to take part in this work assignment, please register by June 6th, 2025 at
Addendum:
Palace wall on 21 June 2025: The stones are back in their old place in a dry stone wall. Photo: Turmhölzle e.V.
Mike1024, LIDAR-scanned-SICK-LMS-animation, marked as public domain, details at Wikimedia CommonsThe GPS survey of the castle ruins by the Schopfheim Town Museum was completed in February 2024. With this survey, a true-to-scale plan of the site is available for the first time.
This is the basis for further research into the ruins.
Lidar (abbreviation for light detection and ranging or light imaging, detection and ranging) is a method of optical distance measurement. It is a form of three-dimensional laser scanning.