Guttenberg Castle (Palatinate)
| Guttenberg Castle | |
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| Burg Guttenberg | |
| Oberotterbach | |
The bergfried
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| Coordinates | 49°04′39″N 7°55′16″E / 49.0776°N 7.9212°ECoordinates: 49°04′39″N 7°55′16″E / 49.0776°N 7.9212°E |
| Type | hill castle, rock castle |
| Code | DE-RP |
| Height | 503 m above sea level (NN) |
| Site information | |
| Condition | ruins; remains of the bergfried and curtain walls |
| Site history | |
| Built | ca. 1150 |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants | ministeriales, counts |
Guttenberg Castle (German: Burg Guttenberg, more rarely, Guttenburg) is a ruined rock castle near the French border in the German part of the Wasgau, which in turn is part of the Palatine Forest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The hill castle is located in the Upper Mundat Forest about three kilometres west of the village of Oberotterbach on the 503-metre-high Schlossberg hill. One kilometre away are the Hohe Derst (561 m) to the northwest and Hohe Kopf (497 m) to the south. The Otterbach, a left tributary of the River Rhine, rises on the northeastern slopes of the Schlossberg, below the castle.
The castle was possibly first mentioned in 1151 as an imperial castle of the Hohenstaufen emperors which was managed by the ministerialis, Landolfo de Gudenburc, or it may have been connected with Ulrich of Guttenberg (Udelricus de Gudenburhc) who gifted it in 1174 to Eusserthal Abbey. The first confirmed record occurs in 1246 when Isengard of Falkenstein, on behalf of her husband, the imperial steward (Reichstruchsess), Philip I of Falkenstein, transferred the castle to King Conrad IV.
In 1317, half of the castle was enfeoffed to the counts of Leiningen, whilst the other half went, a little later, to Electoral Palatinate.
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