Скачать или смотреть Castle ruin Wachtenburg in Wachenheim in Rhineland Palatinate

Hey guys Explain Bear here.I was spontaneously on the road again and saw this very interesting castle ruin Wachtenburg in the beautiful Wachenheim in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Spornburg is the landmark of the town of Wachenheim and was built on the castle hill around the middle of the 12th century.The castle was mentioned for the first time in 1257. In 1273 Rudolf of Habsburg bought it as a dowry for his daughter. In the war of 1375 between the Count of Leiningen and the cities of Mainz, Worms and Speyer, the castle and the town of Wachenheim suffered great damage. The renovated castle went to the Palatine Counts of Zweibrücken-Veldenz in 1410. In 1470, the Wachtenburg was destroyed in the course of the seizure of possession by Elector Frederick I and later only partially rebuilt. During the Palatinate War of Succession, French troops under General Melac blew up the keep in 1689, but half of it remained standing. The castle, which was hardly inhabitable anymore, went in 1718 as a hereditary fief to the Electoral Palatinate Minister Johann Ferdinand von Sickingen (1664-1719), whose descendants sold it in 1796 to the Philipp Kunz heirs at Wachenheim. In 1864 Ludwig Heim from Wachenheim acquired the castle ruins and its properties for 8000 guilders. He carried out excavations, terraced the site and unsuccessfully applied for a grant for the renovation of the Wachtenburg. In 1878 it was sold at auction to a citizen of Worms, from whom Albert Bürklin bought it in 1883.
His heirs donated it to the town of Wachenheim in 1984. A newly founded support group leased the ruin and has been carrying out restoration measures and excavations ever since.

That was the small tour of the castle ruins remains all healthy and limber until the next video. Bye