Lichtenfels Castle

The beautiful Lichtenfels Castle is unfortunately privately owned and can therefore not be visited.

Lichtenfels Castle was built as a hilltop castle in 1189 by Abbot Witukind von Spiegel zum Desenberg from Corvey, destroyed shortly thereafter and rebuilt by Abbot Hermann I between 1223 and 1230. On July 21, 1267, Corvey pledged the castle of Lichtenfels to Count Adolf I of Waldeck. After violent feuds, Corvey finally had to concede ownership of the castle to Count Otto I of Waldeck in 1297. The castle was then for a long time the seat of a branch of the Lords of Dalwigk, vassals of the Counts of Waldecker.In the Middle Ages, a valley settlement with a church belonged to the castle. In 1598 there was talk of "Ensenbecke" and in the 14th century and at the end of the 18th century of "Eisenbeck". Today's village of Dalwigksthal was not established until 1851.The Archbishops of Cologne, as Dukes of Westphalia, repeatedly laid claim to the towns of Münden, Neukirchen and Rhadern in the Lichtenfels district, which led to protracted lawsuits and battles in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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start 17th century, renewed destruction, partial reconstruction in 1631, further reconstruction from 1908 to 1914.