ラングゲーンスの洞窟・トップ20

Friedberg Castle is one of the largest castle complexes in Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Friedberg_(Friedberg)

outbuildings of Münzenberg Castle

Well-preserved gate in the wall below the castle.

Historic gate that belongs to the Münzenberg castle ruins. The suspension devices and the holes for the ram barrier are well worth seeing.

Nice place for a little rest with lots of fresh air around your nose

There are hundreds of pictures of the castle... no matter what perspective, pictures of the castle, especially of the entire castle hill, are always beautiful

Every part of the castle has its history, such a gate has experienced a lot

In 1170, Kransberg was built as one of the first stone castles by the Staufers as part of a defensive chain Friedberg-Kransberg-Königstein-Kronberg to defend against the Limburg bishops. The keep is the only and oldest element of the entire complex that has been preserved from this period. The first separate written mention of the castle dates back to 1220. In 1310 the male line of the von Cransperk family died out and the castle went to the Lords of Falkenstein. 123 years later, in 1433, the castle fell to the Lords of Eppstein and the intermediate building was added. From 1522 to 1533 the castle briefly belonged to the Lords of Königstein and then became the property of the Counts of Stolberg. As a result of the peace in 1590, the complex came into the possession of the Archbishop of Mainz. The residential extension to the main building was built. In 1854, Count Hugo Waldbott sold the property to the Duchy of Nassau. This became Prussian after the lost war against Prussia in 1866. In 1875 the von Biegeleben family bought the property and completely renovated it. The castle now became known as Cransberg Castle. In 1920, Mrs. von Scheitlein bought the property. In 1939 the castle was confiscated by the Nazi regime and again fundamentally expanded and renovated as part of the Adlerhorst complex. The underground bunker, the knight's hall and the garages were built during this time until Kransberg Castle was captured by the American armed forces in 1945. From 1945 onwards, the British armed forces used the complex and operated the Camp Dustbin interrogation center there, where, compared to Camp Ashcan, the top scientific, technical and armaments organizations of the Nazi regime, Albert Speer, Wernher von Braun, Hermann Oberth, Karl-Otto Saur, Hans Kehrl, Fritz Thyssen, Hermann Röchling and others were arrested and questioned. In the summer of 1946, the first conference in world history on biological weapons took place here. As a result, there were changing occupancies, always by military users. The Gehlen organization, the forerunner of the Federal Intelligence Service, also worked here from 1947 to 1961, primarily in the field of telecommunications intelligence. Units of the Bundeswehr and the American armed forces also used the facility.