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Waldeck Castle Ruins

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Waldeck Castle Ruins

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Location: Dommershausen, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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3. View of Schmausemühle – Baybachklamm Caves loop from Dorweiler

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Nicolet

February 22, 2021

Waldeck Castle is located on a mountain spur in the Baybachtal in the Vorderhunsrück. In the middle area of the Baybach near the castle, the valley narrows to a gorge, slopes wooded with oak and hornbeam border directly on the stream.

The first reliable mention of a "von Waldeck", which can be associated with the Hunsrück castle of this name, is from 1189 and names an Anselm vom Waldeck. [1] It can be assumed that a castle or a fortress house already existed then, after which Anselm named himself.

The first documentary mention of the castle itself (in the area of today's castle ruins) comes from the year 1243. The knights Heribert, Udo, Bosso and Winand von Waldeck gave their castle to the Cologne elector Conrad von Hohenstaden as a fief. [2] This feudal commission is to be seen in the context of a comparison and extensive exchange of goods between the Archbishops of Cologne and the Count Palatine, who thus temporarily put an end to their decades-old dispute for supremacy in the Moselle and Middle Rhine region. Against this background, it seems likely that Waldeck Castle previously belonged to the possession or sphere of influence of the Count Palatine. Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Waldeck_(Hunsr%C3%BCck)

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Alex

January 1, 2018

Since the 1910s, the castle and its suburbs have been a popular meeting place for the youth of the cubs, in particular the Nerother Wandervogel (now the owner of the castle grounds) and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Burg Waldeck.

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Valo

May 28, 2023

beautiful stage section on the Saar-Hundsrück-Steig

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Location: Dommershausen, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Waldeck Castle Ruins

1. Baybachklamm Caves – Baybach Tree Trunk Bench loop from Dorweiler

2. Baybachtal Bat Cave (Former Slate Mine) – Baybachklamm Caves loop from Morshausen

3. View of Schmausemühle – Baybachklamm Caves loop from Dorweiler

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