Lichtenstein Castle (Neidenfels)
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid | |
| Place: | Neidenfels | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 23 '35 " N , 8 ° 2' 33.3" E | |
| Height: | 270 m above sea level NN | |
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The Castle Lichtenstein is the ruin of a rock castle on the "Lichtsteiner Mountain", an offshoot of the High Loog in around 270 meters in the Palatinate Forest west of the community Neidenfels in the district of Bad Durkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The castle was built around 1200 and was part of the Staufer defense system , it was supposed to protect the route from Speyer to Kaiserslautern . The von Lichtenstein family had their headquarters here. The castle is mentioned for the first time in connection with Cuonradus de Lichtenstein.
In 1281 the castle was destroyed by civil and episcopal troops from Speyer under the leadership of Johann von Lichtenstein, a cousin of the lords of the castle, after Albrecht and Konrad von Lichtenstein were accused of robber barons. They had also plundered possessions in the episcopal city of Speyer. The castle was not rebuilt, instead Neidenfels Castle was built opposite .
Between 1838 and 1849 the ruins served as a quarry for the construction of the railroad .
investment
Due to the early destruction of the castle and the later use as a quarry, only a now flattened neck ditch and the remains of a circular wall made of humpback ashlars that once enclosed the castle courtyard can be seen. In the former courtyard is a seven-meter-high boulder that once supported the defense tower .
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit (Ed.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon, Volume 3, IN . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern, ISBN 3-927754-51-X .
- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages . Augsburg 1996.
- Günter Stein : Castles and palaces in the Palatinate . Frankfurt / Main 1976.
