Frauenstein Castle (Palatinate)

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Frauenstein Castle
Creation time : around 1344
Castle type : Höhenburg, rock castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of the wall
Standing position : Count
Place: Ruppertsecken
Geographical location 49 ° 38 '46 "  N , 7 ° 52' 48"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '46 "  N , 7 ° 52' 48"  E

The Castle Frauenstein is an Outbound rock castle near the local church Ruppertsecken in Donnersbergkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz .

location

The remains of the presumed castle Frauenstein lie in the ground of a garden on a rock, the so-called "Freistein" ("Frauenstein"), separated from the rest of the mountain ridge by a ditch carved into the rock . Except for the ditch, no visible traces have been preserved. According to remains in the ground, the castle complex probably only consisted of a mansion with a curtain wall .

history

The only documentary mention of the castle comes from 1344, a letter from the knight and later knight Werner von Hohenfels:

I, Werner von Hohenfels, a knight, publicly affirm with this letter that the most noble high-born princes and gracious lords, Mr. Rupprecht the Elder and Mr. Rupprecht the Younger, Duke Adolf's unmarried son, the noble Count Palatine on the Rhine and Dukes of Bavaria, I and my heirs, with the exception of Hermann the Elderly von Hohenfels as a right inheritance, have the Hofstatt and the Frauenstein House, located near Rupprechtseck, in such a way that we and our people can help ourselves out and in with all our needs and where we are right and of the right to be obedient to our aforementioned gentlemen or their highest officials, to take and to give. And I am giving this letter to a true document, sealed with my island. That is given in Heidelberg of the year since one counted thirteen hundred years after the birth of Christ and then in the 44th year, on the Saturday after St. Margaret's Day, the Holy Virgin. (July 17, 1344).

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