Lichtenberg Castle (other)
Lichtenberg Castle may refer to: France * Château de Lichtenberg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace Germany * Lichtenberg Castle (Palatinate), Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate * Lichtenberg Castle (Oberstenfeld), Oberstenfeld, Baden-Wuerttemberg * Lichtenberg Castle (Salzgitter), Lower Saxony * Schloss Lichtenberg (Hessen), a castle in Hesse Italy * Castle Lichtenberg (Prad), Prad am Stilfser Joch, a castle of South Tyrol Netherlands * Castle ruins of Lichtenberg, Mount Saint Peter Mount Saint Peter ( French: ''Montagne Saint-Pierre''; Dutch: ''Sint-Pietersberg''), also referred to as Caestert Plateau, is the northern part of a plateau running north to south between the valleys of the river Geer to the west, and the Meus ...

Château De Lichtenberg
The Château de Lichtenberg is a castle built on a singular prominence in the northern Vosges at the end of the village of Lichtenberg, Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. The castle was first mentioned in 1206 and is most well known as the home of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg. It was left in ruins in 1870 after bombardment by Württemberg troops during the Franco-Prussian War, but was restored in the 1990s and is open to the public. History The castle is first mentioned in 1206, as home to the Lords of Lichtenberg. The Lichtenberg line passed to the Hanau family, who became the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg. In the late 16th century, Phillip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg hired Daniel Specklin, who had designed the fortifications of Strasbourg, to turn the castle into a fortress to use and protect against a new weapon: the cannon. In 1678, the castle capitulated to French troops after an eight-day siege. Like most of the castles in the Alsace region, it came under t ...
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Lichtenberg Castle (Palatinate)
Lichtenberg Castle () is a ruin of the spur castle type; with a length of 425m (1,394 ft) it is the biggest castle ruin in Germany. It is located near Thallichtenberg in the Kusel (district), district of Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate. History The castle was built around 1200 and was owned until 1444 by the counts of County of Veldenz, Veldenz; after which it fell into the ownership of Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken. Under the new rule, Lichtenberg Castle became the administrative seat of Zweibrücken until the move of the administration to Kusel in 1758. The castle remained under the duchy until the dissolution of the Duchy of Zweibrücken in 1792. The part of Germany west of the Rhine river was occupied by French Revolution troops in 1792, and in 1795, the French dissolved the old borders and created new administrative districts, placing Lichtenberg Castle in the Saar Department. The town of Kusel was burnt down by French revolution troops in 1794. Lichten ...
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Lichtenberg Castle (Oberstenfeld)
Lichtenberg Castle may refer to: France * Château de Lichtenberg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace Germany * Lichtenberg Castle (Palatinate), Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate * Lichtenberg Castle (Oberstenfeld), Oberstenfeld, Baden-Wuerttemberg * Lichtenberg Castle (Salzgitter), Lower Saxony * Schloss Lichtenberg (Hessen), a castle in Hesse Italy * Castle Lichtenberg (Prad), Prad am Stilfser Joch, a castle of South Tyrol Netherlands * Castle ruins of Lichtenberg, Mount Saint Peter Mount Saint Peter ( French: ''Montagne Saint-Pierre''; Dutch: ''Sint-Pietersberg''), also referred to as Caestert Plateau, is the northern part of a plateau running north to south between the valleys of the river Geer to the west, and the Meus ...

Oberstenfeld
Oberstenfeld () is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is located about 40 km north of Stuttgart. Geography Oberstenfeld is located in the upper Bottwar river valley. It lies in the northeast of the district of Ludwigsburg. In the north it borders to the Löwenstein Hills, in the west there are the hills Forstberg and Wunnenstein covered by vineyards. Neighboring towns The closest neighboring towns are Beilstein to the north and Großbottwar to the south. Incorporated villages The villages Gronau (located northeast of Oberstenfeld) and Prevorst (located about five kilometers northeast in the Löwensteiner Berge hills) are incorporated. Prevorst is an exclave located between the Heilbronn district and the Rems-Murr district. With an elevation of 482m it is the highest location of the Ludwigsburg district. Transport Road links The motorway ''Autobahn'' A81 (Zürich – Singen – Würzburg – Hamburg) is nearby and reac ...
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Lichtenberg Castle (Salzgitter)
Lichtenberg Castle (), also called the Heinrichsburg ("Henry Castle"), is a ruined castle dating to the 12th century in the Lichtenberge hills (the northwestern part of the Salzgitter Hills) near Salzgitter in the German state of Lower Saxony. The ruins are found south of and above the Salzgitter suburb of Lichtenberg (Salzgitter), Lichtenberg on the steep summit of the ''Burgberg'' (241 metres high). The site, which is extremely good from a strategic perspective, shows the ideal type of ground plan of a hill castle from the High Middle Ages. The builder of the most important fortifications of the House of Welf, Welf dynasty was Duke Henry the Lion. The castle was built to counter the Bishopric of Hildesheim and its House of Hohenstaufen, Hohenstaufen neighbour in Goslar. In spite of numerous conflicts of those times, it was not destroyed until 1552 by the cannons of a mercenary army. Layout of the castle The castle comprises an upper ward, upper and lower wards. The upper ...
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Schloss Lichtenberg (Hessen)
''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate word ''slot''/''slott'' is normally used for what in English could be either a palace or a castle (instead of words in rarer use such as ''palats''/''palæ'', ''kastell'', or ''borg''). In Dutch, the word ''slot'' is considered to be more archaic. Nowadays, one commonly uses ''paleis'' or ''kasteel''. But in English, the term does not appear; for instance, in the United Kingdom, this type of structure would be known as a stately home or country house. Most ''Schlösser'' were built after the Middle Ages as residences for the nobility, not as true fortresses, although originally, they often were fortified. The usual German term for a true castle is ''Burg'', while that for a fortress is ''Festung'' (sometimes also ''Veste'' or ''Feste''), ...
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List Of Castles In Hesse
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ...
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Castle Lichtenberg (Prad)
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private fortified house, fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a mansion, palace, and villa, whose main purpose was exclusively for ''pleasance'' and are not primarily fortresses but may be fortified. Use of the term has varied over time and, sometimes, has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th- and 20th-century homes built to resemble castles. Over the Middle Ages, when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain wall (fortification), curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were commonplace. European-style castles originated in the 9th and 10th centuries after the fall of the Carolingian Empire, which resulted ...
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List Of Castles In South Tyrol
This is a list of castles in South Tyrol in Italy. # Castle Aichberg, Italy, Castle Aichberg, Eppan an der Weinstraße # Altenburg bei St. Pauls, Eppan an der Weinstraße # Annaberg (Castle), Annaberg, Goldrain # Castle Auer, Tirol, South Tyrol, Tirol # Castle Boymont, Castleruine Boymont, Eppan an der Weinstraße # Castle Bruneck, Bruneck # Brunnenburg, Tirol, South Tyrol, Tirol # Churburg, Schluderns # Castle Enn, Montan # Castle Ehrenburg, Italy, Castle Ehrenburg, Kiens # Castle Eschenloch, Castleruine Eschenloch, Ulten # Fahlburg, Tisens-Prissian # Festenstein, Castle Festenstein # Fingellerschlössl/Walbenstein, Sarntal # Fischburg, in Sëlva # Castle Freudenstein, Eppan an der Weinstraße # Fürstenburg, Mals # Castle Gandegg, Eppan an der Weinstraße # Castle Goien, Castleruine Goien, Schenna # Castle Goldrain, Goldrain # Castle Gravetsch, Villanders # Castle Greifenstein, Italy, Castle Greifenstein, Terlan, (aka. ''Sauschloss'' (Pig Castle)) # Haderburg, Salorno # Hasel ...
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