Wasserburg Berg

The vanished moated castle of Berg stood in the valley floor of the Nesenbach stream in Stuttgart's Berg district, on the site of today's Mineral Bath. Built in the twelfth century by the Lords of Berg, it was burned down in 1287 during a campaign of revenge by King Rudolf I against Count Eberhard the Illustrious. Nothing of the complex, which stood at an elevation of roughly 210 meters (about 690 feet), is visible today. Historical records from the early seventeenth century describe the castle site as a high mound in which the remains of a square tower were suspected. These observations were confirmed in 1856 during construction of the Mineral Bath, when the foundation walls of a massive, square residential tower were uncovered, measuring 10.5 meters on each side, with walls three meters thick.