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The Best Attractions In Landstuhl

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Landstuhl is a municipality of over 9,000 people in southwestern Germany. It is part of the district of Kaiserslautern, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and is home to the Sickinger Schloss, a small castle. It is situated on the north-western edge of the Palatinate forest, approx. 10 km west of Kaiserslautern. The earliest traces of human settlement in Landstuhl date from about 500 BCE; the “Heidenfels” from the Celtic period was a holy site even until Roman times, and a Roman settlement dates from the 1st Century CE. The place is said to have been called, late in the first millennium, Nannenstuhl, with the sense seat of Nanthari ; perhaps onc...
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  • 1. Burg Nanstein Landstuhl
    Nanstein Castle is a castle in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was built around the year 1162 after Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I demanded its construction as additional defense for the Palatinate.In 1504, German knight Franz von Sickingen inherited part of the castle after his father's death in the War of the Bavarian Succession, finally acquiring the entire castle in 1518. He immediately began extensive refortification to make the castle suitable for firearms. Nanstein is well known for an elaborate siege during the Knights' Revolt in 1523 which claimed the life of von Sickingen. The fall of Nanstein was a symbol for the decline of castles in the Palatinate. In 1542, von Sickingen's sons recovered Nanstein as a fief and started reconstruction of the castle. Reinhard von Sic...
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  • 8. Burg Eltz Wierschem
    Eltz Castle is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier, Germany. It is still owned by a branch of the same family that lived there in the 12th century, 33 generations ago. Bürresheim Castle , Eltz Castle and Lissingen Castle are the only castles on the left bank of the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate which have never been destroyed.
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  • 9. Marksburg Castle Braubach
    The Marksburg is a castle above the town of Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is one of the principal sites of the Rhine Gorge UNESCO World Heritage Site. The fortress was used for protection rather than as a residence for royal families. It has a striking example of a bergfried designed as a butter-churn tower. Of the 40 hill castles between Bingen am Rhein and Koblenz the Marksburg was the only one which was never destroyed.
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  • 11. Auto & Technik Museum (Automobile and Technology Museum) Sinsheim
    The Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany. Opened in 1981, it is run by a registered association called Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e. V. which also runs the Technik Museum Speyer.
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  • 12. Rhine River Rhineland Palatinate
    The Rhineland is the name used for a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
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  • 13. Rhine Valley Rhineland Palatinate
    The Rhineland is the name used for a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
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