Burg Hoheneck, Medieval castle ruins in Hoheneck district, Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Burg Hoheneck sits on Schlossberg hill with surviving stone walls and a reconstructed northwest tower still visible today. Vineyard terraces spread around the site and offer views down across the Neckar River valley below.

Construction began around 1200 under Margrave Hermann V of Baden and the fortress passed to the Counts of Württemberg by 1360. The site then gradually declined over the following centuries until only these ruins remained.

The name Hoheneck derives from the Hacken family, who were enfeoffed with the castle in 1234 and founded the adjacent town, raising it to city status in 1345. A chapel once stood in the outer bailey, mentioned in 1575. Today the site is private and vineyards grow on its terraces.

The castle grounds are private property and not open to the public, so the ruins cannot be visited; the site is best seen from the surrounding vineyard terraces and paths on the Schlossberg. The terrain is steep and uneven, and the remains lie on a narrow spur above the Neckar.

The northwest square corner tower is not medieval: it was built in 1837 as a romantic ruin for Freiherr von Röder, with a Romanesque pointed-arch window. In the southeast corner, a garden house stands on the foundations of an old ring-wall tower, whose vaulted cellar survives.