Dahner Burgengruppe
The Dahner Burgengruppe near the small town of Dahn in Rhineland-Palatinate consists of the three rock castles Altdahn , Grafendahn and Tanstein , which is seldom written as Tannstein .
geography
The so-called Dahner Felsenland in Wasgau , which includes the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the northern part of the Vosges , has one in addition to the group of castles on the 323.1 m high Schlossberg , which lies on the forest boundary of the town of Dahn just under 1 km east of its residential development whole range of castles and rock formations. For example, Neudahn Castle is 4 km to the northwest , and natural rocks such as the Jungfernsprung and the Bride and Groom formation rise directly on the edge of the city .
From Dahn, Schlossstrasse , which is identical to Kreisstrasse 40, leads up to the Schlossberg and passes it below the south-western mountain spur. There a forest path branches off to the left at a small mountain saddle , via which hikers reach the group of castles after about 300 m. There is a parking lot at the junction at an altitude of 273 m .
history
The three castles were built close to each other, but not at the same time, taking advantage of five rocks standing next to each other on the elongated ridge of the Schlossberg. Several generations of the Dahn knight dynasty were involved, with the construction period stretching over almost two centuries: Tanstein dates from the beginning of the 12th century, Altdahn from the beginning and Grafendahn from the end of the 13th century.
Similar groups of castles
A similar arrangement of castles in a close group of three or two can be found several times in the neighboring Alsatian Vosges : the Dreistein on the Odilienberg near Obernai , the three castles on the Schlossberg near Reinhardsmunster , the Drei Exen near Egisheim and the Hohkönigsburg / Oedenburg . There are other examples elsewhere, such as the three lost castles on Jena’s local mountain (with a palace complex, there should have been a total of four complexes).
literature
- Stefan Grathoff: The Dahner castles. Alt-Dahn - Grafendahn - Tanstein . Guide booklet 21. Edition Castles, Palaces, Antiquities Rhineland-Palatinate. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-1461-X .
- Walter Herrmann: On red rock . A guide to the most beautiful castles in the Palatinate and Alsatian Wasgau. DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner, Braun, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-7650-8286-4 .
- Elena Rey: Castle Guide Palatinate . Verlag Superior, Kaiserslautern 2003, ISBN 3-936216-15-0 .
- Günter Stein : Castles and palaces in the Palatinate . A manual. Weidlich Verlag, Frankfurt 1976, ISBN 3-8035-8356-X .
- Alexander Thon, Peter Pohlit: Grafendahn . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit (Ed.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon . Contributions to the history of the Palatinate, Vol. 12/2. Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , p. 213-223 .
- Alexander Thon (Ed.): ... like a banned, inaccessible magic castle . Castles in the southern Palatinate. 2nd, improved edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1570-5 , p. 18-25 .
- Castle Association Dahn e. V. (Ed.): The Dahner castles. Alt-Dahn - Grafendahn - Tanstein - Neudahn . History and castle guides. 11th, improved edition. Busenberg 1989.
Web links
- Stefan Grathoff: The Dahner castles and their owners
- Dahner Felsenland: Altdahn – Grafendahn – Tanstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Schlossberg with the castle group on: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 48 ′ 9 ″ E