Burg Dauseck

Burg Dauseck stands on a spur above the Enz valley at 265 metres. It once belonged to the counts of Vaihingen before their lands passed to Württemberg. The lords of Tuseck, ministeriales of both counts, gave the site its name. The castle was a useful lookout between the Enz valley and the old road from Grüningen to Vaihingen. In 1311 Count Konrad of Vaihingen took it from Count Eberhard I of Württemberg. Later the lords of Riexingen and before them the lords of Pulverdingen may have held it. By 1570 the main buildings were gone, and by 1789 even the last traces were removed for a vineyard. Today the spur is wooded and quiet. A few dressed stones and rubble cones lie among the trees. A clear boundary stone south of the site still shows the old marks of Enzweihingen and Unterriexingen. Two wartime bunkers hollowed into the hillside remain, though sealed after the war. Trains now pass through the Pulverdinger Tunnel just south of where the old road once ran.