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The Castle Road (German: Burgenstraße) is a theme route in southern Germany (in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg) and a small portion in the Czech Republic, between Mannheim and Prague. It was established in 1954.
The castle dungeon was a wooden raft at the bottom of a well. Prisoners were lowered by rope and would remain there until a ransom was paid. [4] [6] In 1339, Ludwig gifted the castle to Count Rudolph II of the Electorate of the Palatinate, his nephew. [8] According to a decree of 1473 [which?], the castle saw use as a prison and court. [9]
Afterward the castle was used as a prison for a while. In 1801, the Bamberg physician Adalbert Friedrich Marcus acquired the decaying castle and restored it from the ground up. The author E. T. A. Hoffmann , who was friends with Marcus, felt so drawn to the castle that he frequently stayed for a long time in one of the wall towers during the ...
The Augustusburg Castle was built on the foundations of a medieval castle in 1725. It was planned and funded by Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family, and designed by the architects Johann Conrad Schlaun and François de Cuvilliés. [1]
Schloss Elmau is a four-story castle and national monument with hipped roof, tower and porch, situated between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Mittenwald in a sanctuary of the Bavarian Alps, Germany. It lies at the foot of the Wetterstein mountains in a Naturschutzgebiet (nature reserve), belonging to the Krün municipality.
The ruins of Hirschstein Castle on the Großer Kornberg in the Fichtel Mountains; Hohenberg Castle , Hohenberg an der Eger; Kaiserhammer hunting lodge, Marktleuthen; The ruins of the Luxburg on the Luisenburg in the Fichtel Mountains; Röthenbach Castle, Arzberg; Castle ruins and palace of Neuhaus a. d. Eger, town of Hohenberg an der Eger
The first precursor of Mespelbrunn Castle was a simple house. The owner was Hamann Echter, vizedom of Aschaffenburg, a title which means that he was the representative of the ruling prince, the Archbishop of Mainz Johann von Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein [] at the castle and town of Aschaffenburg.
Klopp Castle. Klopp Castle (German: Burg Klopp) is a castle in the town of Bingen am Rhein in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.In the nineteenth century, the bergfried (similar to a keep) from the original medieval fortified castle was restored and a new building added which houses the town's administration.
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