Burghalder (Hauenstein)
Burghalder | ||
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Burghalderfelsen over Hauenstein |
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Creation time : | around 800 to 900 | |
Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Place: | Hauenstein | |
Geographical location | 49 ° 11 '10.8 " N , 7 ° 50' 46.5" E | |
Height: | 370 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Halder is a Outbound hilltop castle on 370 m above sea level. NN at the local community Hauenstein in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate .
The castle lay on a rock, the "Burghalder" (also called "Burgfelsen"), 370 meters above sea level , near Hauenstein, where a moat with a section wall and an inscription reminds of the castle.
The Burghalder was probably built in the 9th – 10th centuries. It was built in the 19th century as a late Carolingian refuge . The remains of broken fragments show that it was used until the 12th century. Historical evidence for the castle complex is so far unknown.
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon, Karl Scherer, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Volume 1: AE . 2nd edition, published by the Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2003, ISBN 3-927754-51-X , pp. 345–348;