Lichtenstein Castle Ruins (Neidenfels)

The ruin essentially consists of a corner of the wall, which can also be entered from above via the slope.
The ruin is beautifully enchanted on the slope. The paths could be slippery when wet. Otherwise no benches or other resting places. Here you are mostly to yourself.

Only a few remains of the castle can be seen, but you can still linger on the ledge and look at Neidenfels.
Instead of the loop at the end of the valley basin (blue and white hiking trail) you can also walk up the small path at the valley entrance (far before the Lichtensteinhütte) and then come back to the blue and white hiking trail e.g. continue towards Lambertskreuz.

Lichtenstein Castle is the ruin of a rock castle on the "Lichtensteiner Berg", an extension of the Hohen Loog at around 270 meters in the Palatinate Forest west of the municipality of Neidenfels in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The castle was built around 1200 and was part of the Staufer defense system, it was supposed to protect the route from Speyer to Kaiserslautern. The von Lichtenstein family had their ancestral seat here. The castle is mentioned for the first time in connection with Cuonradus de Lichtenstein.
Due to the early destruction of the castle and its later use as a quarry, only a now flattened neck ditch and the remains of a circular wall made of humpback ashlars that once enclosed the castle courtyard can be seen