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Founded: 12th centuryCategory: Castles and fortifications in Germany
Historical period: Hohenstaufen Dynasty (Germany)
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4.4/5 (based on Google user reviews)
User Reviews
The Futurist Podcast (4 months ago)
I went there just to see the view, and it was WORTH IT!
I went there just to see the view, and it was WORTH IT!
aymar stadler (4 months ago)
The pillboxes flanking the gate of Lichtenberg castle will be 18th century even as the horizontal loopholes. The ivy clad sentinel lets everyone pass. This looks more like a slatted louver than a window. Moorish influences cannot be ruled out. Fiesta time. Spit roasted pig may be on the menu. Not much difference between machicolation and a non-flushing toilet. Baseball hoops made of stone were also used to secure flagpoles. Pig sticker or hay fork? The base would be too small to keep a load of hay well balanced. The design would however work well for capturing snakes. Apply force on the tread to drive the prongs deeper into the ground. No snakes, there are always spuds. Cleaning lady assessment, a longer handle might have helped. Semi-dressed Staufic ashlars (or humpback blocks). Helen Keller, let me decode that for you. Thickness of the enclosing walls, about 2,60 meter. The base of the keep, roughly 30by30 feet, is solid stone. The interior stairway starts halfway up. The half-timbered upper floors of the living quarters are 16th century. Somebody tried his Tetris skills at this partition wall. The precariously perched lintel should not have survived an inspection. Wunnenstein (or Forstberg). Any South facing slope will be dedicated to Bacchus. The heraldic word for red is 'gules' ('engueuler', gorge-red), this would make it 'gules a bent argent' blazon (or vice versa). It could have been the castle's barbershop - or marked the location where lifebuoys were kept (chevroned ski sweaters). Flags became a big thing during the crusades. They also served as badges of entitlement, technical, 'vexillaria feuda'. Numerous crusading flags were based on symbolic arrangement of red and white stripes. The Dannebrog simply did fall from the sky during the battle of Tallinn (1217) as a sign of divine favor (nearly as good as rainbows, nature's very own Arc de Triomphe). And Austria was once part of Bavaria (meaning it should boast the BMW flag - made up out of white and blue lozenges). Guelf territory that is (later associated with the Wittelsbach line). But then there was Barbarossa who in 1156 split off its Southern parts. Condign punishment for lacking zeal during an Italian campaign. (FIFA pic) Barbarossa: I know a 'carroccio' when I see one. Blow the alphorns and remember Legano. The windsock looks like an animated dragon. A Lichtenberg commanded the imperial army of Louis IV's (sobriquet 'ille Bavarius') in the Battle of Mühldorf (1322). The event is duly commemorated in the ancestral hall. The relations with the Holy See remained choppy. The chumminess did not survive the rise to power. Whatever the hunting lodge, the Nimrod braggadocio will be the same. With my bare hands did I strangle them. 18th or 19th century. The highlight is the chapel. A somewhat womblike experience. One can touch the ceiling nearly everywhere (just take measures before shopping for a Xmas tree). The frescoes of the first hour date from 1220, the Gothic face-lift from the early 14th century. The crucifix looks Baroque (actually 1573). Piecemeal, the holy supper scene (black backdrop) is early 14th century but the Palm Sunday scene as well as the crucifixion with the man in pain are leftovers from 1220. Telltale clue, panel imposed formatting is blissfully ignored. Jaywalking before its time. The by-standers (flash crowds) in the artfully draped chitons are Gothic. Also early 14th century, the dickering for souls. Bottom row, the distaff side of the highborn family kneel in organ pipe order before the altar. The 14th century frescoes in the nearby Peterskirche are most likely by the same hand (it features a St. Martin of Tour interacting with a rather realistic pauper, no questions regarding 'the halt and the lame' part). The nunnery St.John in Oberstenfeld served as burial site. Most abbeys allowed the burial of sponsors regardless of gender.(Women without means would normally wind up in a beguinage, earn your keep set-up.)
The pillboxes flanking the gate of Lichtenberg castle will be 18th century even as the horizontal loopholes. The ivy clad sentinel lets everyone pass. This looks more like a slatted louver than a window. Moorish influences cannot be ruled out. Fiesta time. Spit roasted pig may be on the menu. Not much difference between machicolation and a non-flushing toilet. Baseball hoops made of stone were also used to secure flagpoles. Pig sticker or hay fork? The base would be too small to keep a load of hay well balanced. The design would however work well for capturing snakes. Apply force on the tread to drive the prongs deeper into the ground. No snakes, there are always spuds. Cleaning lady assessment, a longer handle might have helped. Semi-dressed Staufic ashlars (or humpback blocks). Helen Keller, let me decode that for you. Thickness of the enclosing walls, about 2,60 meter. The base of the keep, roughly 30by30 feet, is solid stone. The interior stairway starts halfway up. The half-timbered upper floors of the living quarters are 16th century. Somebody tried his Tetris skills at this partition wall. The precariously perched lintel should not have survived an inspection. Wunnenstein (or Forstberg). Any South facing slope will be dedicated to Bacchus. The heraldic word for red is 'gules' ('engueuler', gorge-red), this would make it 'gules a bent argent' blazon (or vice versa). It could have been the castle's barbershop - or marked the location where lifebuoys were kept (chevroned ski sweaters). Flags became a big thing during the crusades. They also served as badges of entitlement, technical, 'vexillaria feuda'. Numerous crusading flags were based on symbolic arrangement of red and white stripes. The Dannebrog simply did fall from the sky during the battle of Tallinn (1217) as a sign of divine favor (nearly as good as rainbows, nature's very own Arc de Triomphe). And Austria was once part of Bavaria (meaning it should boast the BMW flag - made up out of white and blue lozenges). Guelf territory that is (later associated with the Wittelsbach line). But then there was Barbarossa who in 1156 split off its Southern parts. Condign punishment for lacking zeal during an Italian campaign. (FIFA pic) Barbarossa: I know a 'carroccio' when I see one. Blow the alphorns and remember Legano. The windsock looks like an animated dragon. A Lichtenberg commanded the imperial army of Louis IV's (sobriquet 'ille Bavarius') in the Battle of Mühldorf (1322). The event is duly commemorated in the ancestral hall. The relations with the Holy See remained choppy. The chumminess did not survive the rise to power. Whatever the hunting lodge, the Nimrod braggadocio will be the same. With my bare hands did I strangle them. 18th or 19th century. The highlight is the chapel. A somewhat womblike experience. One can touch the ceiling nearly everywhere (just take measures before shopping for a Xmas tree). The frescoes of the first hour date from 1220, the Gothic face-lift from the early 14th century. The crucifix looks Baroque (actually 1573). Piecemeal, the holy supper scene (black backdrop) is early 14th century but the Palm Sunday scene as well as the crucifixion with the man in pain are leftovers from 1220. Telltale clue, panel imposed formatting is blissfully ignored. Jaywalking before its time. The by-standers (flash crowds) in the artfully draped chitons are Gothic. Also early 14th century, the dickering for souls. Bottom row, the distaff side of the highborn family kneel in organ pipe order before the altar. The 14th century frescoes in the nearby Peterskirche are most likely by the same hand (it features a St. Martin of Tour interacting with a rather realistic pauper, no questions regarding 'the halt and the lame' part). The nunnery St.John in Oberstenfeld served as burial site. Most abbeys allowed the burial of sponsors regardless of gender.(Women without means would normally wind up in a beguinage, earn your keep set-up.)
Calin Rotaru (5 months ago)
Unfortunately closed for a private village festival at the time we arrived. So we only walked around. Still an impressive building.
Unfortunately closed for a private village festival at the time we arrived. So we only walked around. Still an impressive building.
Danilo Markovic (5 months ago)
Privately owned, there are tours on sundays, nice view on wineyards from driveway
Privately owned, there are tours on sundays, nice view on wineyards from driveway
Tasneem Barakat (2 years ago)
Wonderful view! Unfortunately we could not see the castle from inside
Wonderful view! Unfortunately we could not see the castle from inside
