Blumenstein Castle, Pfalz

Blumenstein Castle, Pfalz

Blumenstein Castle is a castle ruin in the Palatinate Forest in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was built around 1260 by the House of Blumenstein. Blumenstein castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525.

The castle was first mentioned in 1332 in connection with knight Anselm from Batzendorf near Blumenstein. After a feud with the House of Fleckenstein in 1347 the knights were banished from the castle.

About 1350 the counts of Zweibrücken had 1 quarter of the castle, the House of Dahn owned the rest.


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