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Landkreis Trier-Saarburg

Kastel-Staadt

Kastel-Staadt Hermitage

Landkreis Trier-Saarburg

Kastel-Staadt

Kastel-Staadt Hermitage

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Kastel-Staadt Hermitage

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This Highlight is in a protected area

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Location: Kastel-Staadt, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Runder Turm Rock Formation – Rock arch loop from Taben

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2. Rock arch – Igelfels loop from Kastel-Staadt

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3. Rock arch – Runder Turm Rock Formation loop from Kastel-Staadt

8.54km

02:41

310m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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🥾🚴Rasche 🚴🥾

October 5, 2021

What an impressive complex and church was built on the heights

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

July 19, 2019

In the 13th century, two chambers were first cut into the red sandstone rock.
Around 1600 the Franciscan Roméry had a two-story chapel built. Your upper floor was connected to the upper rock chamber.
In 1833, the future King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Received the ruins as a gift. On his behalf, a burial chapel for Johann von Böhmen (later called "The Blind") was built there by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1834/35. Between 1838 and 1945 John's bones were buried in a sarcophagus in the chapel.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) used the remainder of the old building, had stained glass windows installed and built a chapel with triple arcade windows and an Italian-style bell gable above it. The king's bones were placed in a classical sarcophagus.
In 1842 an altar was added, which had been designed according to the proposals of the Prussian king. The ancestral table of the royal family was integrated into the chapel as a fresco.

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Florian

August 25, 2019

Visible from far away, the hermitage is high above the Saar Valley

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Elevation 400 m

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Location: Kastel-Staadt, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Kastel-Staadt Hermitage

1. Runder Turm Rock Formation – Rock arch loop from Taben

2. Rock arch – Igelfels loop from Kastel-Staadt

3. Rock arch – Runder Turm Rock Formation loop from Kastel-Staadt

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