Burg Neuenfels

Müllheim, Germany, Germany

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Burg Neuenfels is the ruin of a medieval noble castle located on a 595-meter-high mountain spur in the Markgräflerland region near Müllheim in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, specifically on the territory of Britzingen, a district of Müllheim, just near Badenweiler.

The castle was probably built around 1300 by the Lords of Neuenfels, who are first documented as "de Nuwenfels" in 1307, and it was first mentioned in writing in 1343, but it had never any military significance and was used primarily as a residential house. The compact, box-shaped castle with rounded corners measured about 30 by 9 meters and had no keep (Bergfried), which is characteristic of castles built around 1300.

According to local legend, in 1540 Knight Christoph and his entire family, servants, and even his trained mastiff were found dead in their own blood in the castle courtyard in an unsolved murder mystery, after which none of the heirs wanted to use the castle and it began to fall into ruins from 1540 onward.