Schloss Steinen, Moated castle in Steinen, Germany

Schloss Steinen is a former moated house at the northern edge of the old village of Steinen. Its rectangular main building has three storeys, a polygonal stair tower and two round corner towers on the west side. The stepped gables shown in a 1790 sketch are gone, and the surrounding moat, fed by the Steinenbach, no longer exists.

A castle at Steinen is documented in 1278 only as a ruined 'Burgstall'. Around 1350 a Dinghof of St. Blaise Abbey, probably grown out of that castle, is mentioned. In 1563 Gregorius Krafft von Dellmensingen had the moated house rebuilt from the ground up; the carved year 1563 above the entrance door and on a south-side window jamb recalls this. From 1678 the Burgvogtei of Rötteln Castle was housed here for about three years.

The building is still a private residence and cannot be visited; since 2017 it has held nine private apartments. The renovation by investor Götz Rehn, planned by the Artifex office, added dormer windows to gain space, with approval from the monument protection authority and the municipality. The name Steinen refers to the village at whose northern edge the house stands.

The building is a private residence with nine rental apartments and is not open to visitors; the renovation finished in mid-2017. It stands at the northern edge of the old village of Steinen, and the former moat was fed from the nearby Steinenbach stream. The exterior can be viewed from the public path.

The year 1563 is carved above the entrance door and on a window jamb on the south side, marking Gregorius Krafft von Dellmensingen's rebuilding. A tithe barn that once stood here is said to have borne the date 1602. The stepped gables shown in a 1790 sketch are gone.