List of cultural monuments in Falkenstein (Pfalz)
In the list of cultural monuments in Falkenstein , all cultural monuments of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Falkenstein are listed. The basis is the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (as of July 15, 2017).
Monument zones
designation | location | Construction year | description | image |
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Monument zone for the Falkenstein castle ruins | Main street location |
around 1125 | Ancestral seat of a side line of the Lords of Bolanden, possibly founded around 1125, destroyed in 1647, destroyed after reconstruction in 1668; elongated complex, late Gothic remains of the curtain wall, the palace, two bastion towers (16th century?), foundations of the so-called servant house and stair tower, belt arch of a cellar vault marked 1536, round tower, reconstruction of a vestibule; Testimony to the imperial and regional history from the 12th to 17th centuries and the Hohenstaufen and late medieval castle building |
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Monument zone at the Jewish cemetery in Marienthal | north of the village on the K 37 location |
1850 | Trapezoidal area laid out in 1850 and expanded in 1913; 36 tombstones by 1932 |
Individual monuments
designation | location | Construction year | description | image |
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Protestant bell tower | Friedhofstrasse location |
1886 | Sandstone block construction with pointed helmet, 1886, architect Julius Huth , Kaiserslautern ; defining the location and the landscape |
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Site fortification | Hauptstrasse and Im Winterthal location |
Remains of the late medieval tower-reinforced quarry stone wall; will receive a more than 100 m long section of the wall between the properties at Hauptstrasse 22 and Im Winterthal 1, shorter parts of the wall at Hauptstrasse 6 (remains of a round tower) and Im Winterthal 3; rare remnant of a fortification in the district | ||
Wayside cross | Main street location |
1827 | Neighboring baroque sandstone plinth, marked 1827, metal body | |
Courtyard | Hauptstrasse 31 location |
18th century | late baroque courtyard, 18th century; Double dwelling, partly half-timbered, half-hip roof, allegedly from 1713, farm building with half-hip roofs |
literature
- Dieter Krienke (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 15: Donnersbergkreis. Werner, Worms 1998. ISBN 3-88462-153-X
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of the cultural monuments Donnersbergkreis (PDF; 5.3 MB). Mainz 2017.
Web links
Commons : Cultural heritage monuments in Falkenstein (Pfalz) - Collection of images, videos and audio files