Burghalder (Hauenstein)

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Burghalder
Burghalderfelsen over Hauenstein

Burghalderfelsen over Hauenstein

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 Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '10.8 "  N , 7 ° 50' 46.5"  E
Height: 370  m above sea level NN
Burghalder (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Burghalder

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.

Board with site plan and description of the excavations

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;