Rietburg
| Rietburg | |
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| Rhodt unter Rietburg | |
The Rietburg
and the route of the chair lift |
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 Rietburg
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| Coordinates | 49°16′40″N 8°04′48″E / 49.2776806°N 8.080028°ECoordinates: 49°16′40″N 8°04′48″E / 49.2776806°N 8.080028°E |
| Type | Hill castle, hillside location |
| Code | DE-RP |
| Height | 535 m above sea level (NN) |
| Site information | |
| Condition | ruin |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1200–1204 |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants | ministeriales |
The Rietburg is a ruined hillside castle on the edge of the Palatinate Forest above the village of Rhodt in the county of Südliche Weinstrasse in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The remains of this castle are located on the side of the 613-metre-high Blättersberg mountain.
The Rietburg stands at a height of 535 metres above sea level on the northeastern flanks of the 618-metre-high Blättersberg, a peak in the Haardt mountains that form the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest.
There is a car park at the foot of the Blättersberg near Villa Ludwigshöhe. This may be reached by taking the Edenkoben exit off the A 65 motorway from Karlsruhe to Ludwigshafen am Rhein), then following the road to Rhodt and, subsequently to Rietburg. A chairlift, the Rietburgbahn runs up the mountain.
All that has survived of the castle is part of the shield wall, parts of the enceinte and the zwinger.
The construction of Rietburg castle is dated to the period 1200 to 1204 and ascribed to the lords of Riet. These noblemen were initially vassals of the North Alsatian Benedictine abbey of Weißenburg, later they became ministeriales and feudatories of the then German Hohenstaufen lords. The family came from the region between Speyer and Germersheim and had taken their name from their place of origin along the River Rhine that had been colonised by reeds (German: Riet = "reed"). They were first mentioned in 1149 in a deed belonging to the South Palatine abbey of Eußerthal. The castle was built by Conrad II of Riet, the eldest of six sons of Conrad I and his wife, Adelheid, whom he married in 1184.
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