 Neckarsteinach's foremost sights are its four castles, which stand on crags or the slope leading down to the Neckar.They are the "Vorderburg" (“Fore-castle” or “Further Castle”), the "Mittelburg" (“Middle Castle”), the "Hinterburg" (“Hind-castle” or “Hinder Castle”) and the "Schadeck" (also called the "Schwalbennest", or “Swallows’ Nest”).The castles were built between 1100 and 1230 by the Landschad von Steinach family, partly as a Worms or Speyer fief, partly as an allodial holding.