The magnificent castle in the middle of the city now houses the court and a boarding school. The small inner courtyard of the castle is totally blocked by cars, not nice.
The castle was built around 1253 by the Raugrafen, mentioned in 1253 as "Novum castrum apud Sarlesheim" and in 1283 was owned by the Raugraf Heinrich II von Neuenbaumburg, the son of Raugraf Heinrich I.
The Alzeyer Castle probably emerged from a Hohenstaufen imperial castle and was expanded into a castle in the 16th century. It was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession in …