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The former castle well dates back to around 1200. It was located in the Zwinger area of the outer bailey. It carried water until 1951, after which it dried up. It is 50 meters deep, 40 meters of which are carved into bare rock.

From 1891 to 1952, water was pumped into this well from the water house in the Kainachtal valley. Residents then collected the water in barrels.

The castle is located on a narrow dolomite cliff at an elevation of approximately 500 meters. It is open to visitors from April to October. Since 1745, the castle has been part of the Sanspareil Rock Garden, created by Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

"It's without parallel!" – "This is without equal!" a lady-in-waiting to Margrave Frederick is said to have exclaimed when she saw the bizarre rock formation in the beech grove not far from Zwernitz Castle. In this extraordinary landscape, the Oriental Building and the kitchen building opposite, which served as a venue for festivities at the Bayreuth court, were built between 1744 and 1748 according to plans by the court architect Joseph St. Pierre. These two buildings are grouped around a detached garden parterre, which was reconstructed in 1984 based on a copperplate engraving from 1748.

The magnificent complex is characterized by the redesign that Margrave Georg Friedrich had carried out by the architect Caspar Vischer after the destruction in the Second Margrave War in 1557. The wings of the narrow castle, which had been founded by the Counts of Andechs before 1135, were transformed into an impressive four-wing complex and secured against the mountain side with enormous bastions. Today, the Plassenburg, high above Kulmbach, is a cultural center of the Upper Mainland. After the fortifications were destroyed at the behest of Napoleon in 1806, the castle served as a prison and workhouse until 1928 - then exhibition rooms, museums and display collections were set up.

In the "Schöner Hof" with its richly decorated arcades, the atmosphere of a German princely court of the Renaissance comes to life.

The Plassenburg was secured against the mountain side with a massive fortification.

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