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Nice drive to the castle

Castle not so nice, but great view

the castle is less beautiful, but the view is great!

Beautiful location with a far-reaching view. Just enjoy the view or take a break.

Unfortunately, there is not much left of the castle. Only the rock still stands. But we still enjoyed it there.

Many trails, both stroller friendly and not at all, run to and around the Hoheneken castle ruins. The views are gorgeous. There is play ground near by. Also a private pasture where you can encounter interesting breed of goats (Boargoat). There are nit documented data on when the Castle was build. In the first half of the 13th century the castle was enfeoffed to a Kaiserslautern family of ministeriales, the descendants of Reinhard of Lautern, the knight. In 1214, they were awarded the right of patronage of Ramstein by the king, Frederick II, who would later become emperor. From then on the castle's owners called themselves von Hohenecken. At the beginning of the early modern period, Hohenecken Castle went into decline. In the German Peasants' War of 1525 it was captured by rebellious peasants. In 1668 there was a lengthy siege by Prince-Elector Charles Louis of the Palatinate, which ended in the partial destruction of the castle. In 1689, during the War of the Palatine Succession, the castle was blown up by French troops.

Nice place with a remnant of ruin.

There are only a few remnants of the Beilstein castle ruins, but it was nice to admire this highlight, The natural and cultural monument castle ruins Beilstein is one of the smaller imperial ministerial castles. The Felsenburg is located about two kilometers east of Kaiserslautern on the B37 (to Hochspeyer), 313 m above sea level. NN. The ruin probably owes its name to the ax shape of the castle rock. Probably in the 12th century, Duke Frederick II of Swabia ("Duke Frederick the One-Eyed") had the castle built. In 1185 it was mentioned that the castle was owned by Ministerial Merbodo von Beilstein. In 1212, Merbodo von Beilstein sealed together with his brother Wernher von Wartenberg as witnesses in the Wilenstein renunciation, in 1234 King Henry VII allowed the Bylenstein castrum to be rebuilt. Between 1420 and 1455 the castle was violently destroyed. No reconstruction followed. The ruins passed into the hands of Flörsheim and the Electoral Palatinate. In 1464, the last time a Beilsteiner was mentioned was the Hochstiftisch-Speyer chef Hans von Bilenstein. After the Flörsheim family died out in 1665, the castle was completely owned by the Electoral Palatinate. Around 1900, the Palatinate Beautification Association cleared part of the site and carried out security measures. As a result, however, archaeological find zones were partially destroyed. At the end of the 1950s, excavations proved that a facility must have existed before it was first mentioned, the dimensions of which were obviously much larger than the part of the facility that has survived today, which essentially consists of the masonry of the keep. Beilstein Castle has been owned by the city of Kaiserslautern since around 1990.