Eptingen is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Eptingen is first mentioned in 1145 as …Eptingen is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Eptingen is first mentioned in 1145 as Ebittingen. The Burgruine Witwald, also called Wild-Eptingen or younger castle, are the ruins of a hilltop castle above the settlement of Eptingen in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft. You can see remains of the walls of the Palas as well as an entrance gate, a staircase and a cistern. About 300 meters southeast are the older ruins of Wild-Eptingen, probably a predecessor of Witwald Castle.