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This is the entrance to the Great Hall. As you can see, only a small section of the outer wall...a window, actually...is still standing. The Schloss was built circa 1025 (41 years before William the Conqueror & the Battle of Hastings!) by the Count of Urach. The Count of Wurttemberg bought it in 1264. It was expanded and officially accounted a "fortress" in 1428. It was seized by the Swabian Alliance in 1519 and the Emperor's troops in 1635 during the Thirty Years War. It served as a fortress and national prison until it was demolished by the Duke Carl Eugen of Wurttemberg in 1765.