Wandering Istein Castle Ruins

We bought a new “old” travel book called The Black Forest: Its People and Legends by Lisbeth Seguin. It was published in 1879. The author traveled from England to the Black Forest in the 1800s. In her travels, she documents the daily life of the people of the region, how to travel the area, and collected folklore and legends of the Black Forest. So we have decided to follow in her footsteps and visit the mythological worlds in real life. Today we visited The Ruins of Istein Castle in the Black Forest Germany. When the author visited, a river ran just beneath the castle and into the Rhine. When we visited, we discovered that the river is no longer there and had been redirected sometime in the early 1900s. However, if you cross the road near the castle, you will find yourself along the banks of the Rhine.

In this Legend, a young knight named Veit is betrothed to the beautiful maiden Jutta. Veit, hoping to win honor and glory, travels to a tournament. There, he wins all of the contests, catching the eye of the equally beautiful Bertha. Veit and Bertha soon fall in love and he forgets poor Jutta. Jutta, hearing rumors of her lover's unfaithfulness, sets forth as a pilgrim to find him and to disprove the horrendous rumors. When she finally does confront him, however, Veit is with Bertha and does not recognize poor Jutta. In despair, she jumps to her death in the river beneath the castle. Veit, as if the spell is broken, recognizes his former love, as if waking from a dream. He searches for Jutta, but only finds her lifeless corpse in the Rhine, and he too jumps to his doom in the Rhine, and the spot where their bodies wash ashore is consecrated by a local priest. Local legends now credit the spot as that to which all bodies of the Rhine who have died by their own hands swim so that they may find rest.

History:
Istein castle was a rock castle built by the bishops of Basel in the 11th and 12th centuries. It was first mentioned in 1185. The castle was stormed in 1410-1411 by the Basler troops. The modern fortress was built in 1900-1914 and destroyed after 1945.

St. Vitus Chapel, partially ruined, is one of two original castle chapels built in the 12th century. The current small chapel, which was built after the destruction of the castle in 1650 and destroyed by the French occupation forces in 1947, was rebuilt in the 1980s due to a citizens' initiative.



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Enemy Ships
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A Baroque Letter
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Tragic story
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Renaissance castle
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Impertinence
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