Hardenburg (Bad Dürkheim)

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Type hill castle Built 1205/1214		Code DE-RP Occupants Counts

Area 180 × 90 m (590 × 300 ft) Condition Ruin, partially reconstructed Address 67098 Bad Dürkheim, Germany Similar Palatinate Forest, Schloss‑ und Festungsr, Kriemhildenstuhl, Villa rustica Weilberg, Drachenfels

The Hardenburg on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest near the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim is even as a ruin one of the mightiest castles of Palatinate.

Literature

Alexander Thon, ed. (2005) (in German), Wie Schwalbennester an den Felsen geklebt : Burgen in der Nordpfalz (1. ed.), Regensburg: Verlag Schnell und Steiner, pp. 60–67, ISBN 3-7954-1674-4

Jürgen Keddigkeit; Alexander Thon; Michael Losse (2003) (in German), Burgruine Hardenburg bei Bad Dürkheim : Burgen, Schlösser, Altertümer Rheinland-Pfalz, Heft 3, Regensburg: Verlag Schnell und Steiner, ISBN 3-7954-1516-0

Jürgen Keddigkeit; Alexander Thon; Michael Losse (2002), Jürgen Keddigkeit; Alexander Thon; Rolf Übel, eds., "Hardenburg" (in German), Pfälzisches Burgenlexikon. Bd. 2. F−H (Kaiserslautern) Bd. 12.2: pp. 280–294, ISBN 3-927754-48-X, ISSN 0936-7640

References

Hardenburg (Bad Dürkheim) Wikipedia

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