Hardenburg (Bad Dürkheim)

This article is about the castle. For other uses, see Hardenburg (disambiguation).

Hardenburg Höhenburg
Bad Dürkheim-Hardenburg
Hardenburg
Site information
Type	hill castle
Code	DE-RP
Condition	Ruin, partially reconstructed
Location
Hardenburg Höhenburg Location within Rhineland-Palatinate Hardenburg Höhenburg Location within Germany
Coordinates	49°27′44″N 8°07′18″E
Area	180 × 90 m (590 × 300 ft)
Site history
Built	1205/1214
Garrison information
Occupants	Counts

The Hardenburg on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest near the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim is even as a ruin one of the mightiest castles of Palatinate. It was the residence of the Counts of Leiningen, who in 1725 moved to Schloss Dürkheim.

Literature

• Alexander Thon, ed. (2005), Wie Schwalbennester an den Felsen geklebt : Burgen in der Nordpfalz (in German) (1. ed.), Regensburg: Verlag Schnell und Steiner, pp. 60–67, ISBN 3-7954-1674-4
• Jürgen Keddigkeit; Alexander Thon; Michael Losse (2003), Burgruine Hardenburg bei Bad Dürkheim : Burgen, Schlösser, Altertümer Rheinland-Pfalz (in German), vol. Heft 3, Regensburg: Verlag Schnell und Steiner, ISBN 3-7954-1516-0
• Jürgen Keddigkeit; Alexander Thon; Michael Losse (2002), "Hardenburg", in Jürgen Keddigkeit; Alexander Thon; Rolf Übel (eds.), Pfälzisches Burgenlexikon. Bd. 2. F−H (in German), vol. Bd. 12.2, Kaiserslautern, pp. 280–294, ISBN 3-927754-48-X, ISSN 0936-7640{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Kreisstadt Bad Dürkheim: Burg Hardenburg
• Burgen in Rheinland-Pfalz: Burg Hardenburg Archived 2013-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Wolfgang Braun: Rekonstruktionszeichnung Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine