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Historic Sites Attractions In Landstuhl

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Landstuhl is a municipality of over 9,000 people in southwestern Germany. It is part of the district of Kaiserslautern, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and is home to the Sickinger Schloss, a small castle. It is situated on the north-western edge of the Palatinate forest, approx. 10 km west of Kaiserslautern. The earliest traces of human settlement in Landstuhl date from about 500 BCE; the “Heidenfels” from the Celtic period was a holy site even until Roman times, and a Roman settlement dates from the 1st Century CE. The place is said to have been called, late in the first millennium, Nannenstuhl, with the sense seat of Nanthari ; perhaps onc...
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  • 1. Burg Nanstein Landstuhl
    Nanstein Castle is a castle in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was built around the year 1162 after Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I demanded its construction as additional defense for the Palatinate.In 1504, German knight Franz von Sickingen inherited part of the castle after his father's death in the War of the Bavarian Succession, finally acquiring the entire castle in 1518. He immediately began extensive refortification to make the castle suitable for firearms. Nanstein is well known for an elaborate siege during the Knights' Revolt in 1523 which claimed the life of von Sickingen. The fall of Nanstein was a symbol for the decline of castles in the Palatinate. In 1542, von Sickingen's sons recovered Nanstein as a fief and started reconstruction of the castle. Reinhard von Sic...
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