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Apart from two ladies of the castle, Sophie and Gertrud, being mentioned in a council book of the City of Rothenburg in 1269, one of the most important documents on Colmberg is a contract of July 17, 1318, which confirms the sale of Castle Colmberg by the Count of Truhendingen at the price of 6200 pounds heller.
It was here at Castle Colmberg that Burgrave Friedrich VI., who lived here in seclusion with his wife Elisabeth, called "beautiful Else", made the far-reaching decision to go to Hungary and support Emperor Sigismund.
Castle Colmberg was never taken neither in the war of the cities in 1449 nor in the peasants' war in 1525 nor in following devastations of the small market town Colmberg by Imperial troops.
Since 1880 the castle has been privately owned. From 1927 to 1964 it belonged to the last Imperial Consul in Japan Dr. Dr. hc. E. A. Voretzsch. In 1964 the local family Unbehauen bought the castle and opened it to the public. There is a knights hall. Restaurant in castle hotel Colmberg
2 seminar rooms till 25 people. Wedding functions with ceremony in the castle chapel till 60 people. Hotel bar. Restaurant closed in February. Around the castle hotel Colmberg
Rothenburg, Dinkelsbuhl, Nordlingen andFeuchtwangenCastle Colmberg is the starting point of many beautiful hiking tours and excursions to medieval towns such as Rothenburg, Dinkelsbuhl, Nordlingen (with the big round town wall, many town wall towers and a very high church tower with a marvelous round view) and Feuchtwangen. Visit the Franconian Open Air Museum at Bad Windsheim and relax in the Franconian Lake Area, a paradise for swimming, surfing and sailing. |
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One year after the mentioned change
of ownership in 1318 and twelve years before the Hohenzollern started to rule in Ansbach,
King Ludwig turned the Bavarian fiefs Colmberg and Leutershausen into Imperial fiefs and
invested the burgraves of Nuremberg with the land.
At the Imperial Diet at Constance in 1415 the
Emperor therefore invested him with the Brandenburg March which was to form the core of
the Prussian Empire.
In 1791
Colmberg was made part of Prussia together with the margravate Ansbach, in 1806 it became
part of Bavaria. From 1806 until 1880 the castle was the seat of the revenue office of the
Kingdom of Bavaria. 
Various
rooms for 10 to 130 people suitable for meetings,