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Berwartstein Castle (German: Burg Berwartstein) is a castle in the Wasgau, the southern part of the Palatinate Forest in the state Rhineland-Palatinate in southwestern Germany. It was one of the rock castles that were part of defences of the Palatinate during the Middle Ages .
Hans survived the sanctions of the Emperor and Pope and, two years later, after he had died on 26 October 1503 at Berwartstein Castle of natural causes, they were posthumously lifted. The knight was interred in St. Anne's Chapel in Niederschlettenbach, four kilometres from Berwartstein above the confluence of the Erlenbach and the Wieslauter ...
This list encompasses buildings variously described in German as Burg , Festung (fort/fortress), Schloss (manor house, palace or hunting lodge) and Palais/Palast . Many German castles after the Middle Ages were built as, or converted to, royal or ducal palaces rather than fortified buildings.
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The little castle was erected in 1484 as an outpost of the Berwartstein by the knight Hans von Trotha, later also known in the local dialect as Hans Trapp. This outwork enabled a piece of open ground known as the Leichenfeld ("Corpse Field") to be covered by a crossfire from two directions: from the north (Berwartstein) and from the south ...
Yet the German tradition of opening presents on Christmas Eve remains, even up to the present day. Around 4 p.m. on Dec. 24, tea and snacks are typically served to guests — who arrived earlier ...
Erlenbach bei Dahn is a municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Above the village is Berwartstein Castle on one side of the Erlenbach stream and the outwork Little France on the other. Church Mariae Himmelfahrt and St. Aegidius