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<p><i><b>Designation:</b></i> Monument zone  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifels_Castle" class="extiw" title="w:Trifels Castle">Trifels Castle</a><br><i><b>Construction time:</b></i> before 1081<br><i><b>Description:</b></i> 1081 mentioned, later staufian Imperial castle
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<dl><dd>In the 12th and 13th century repository of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Regalia" class="extiw" title="w:Imperial Regalia">Imperial Regalia</a>, from 1635 as a quarry, 1938-50 reconstruction by Rudolf Esterer</dd>
<dd>Uniform group of donjon and great hall (rusticated ashlar), arched castle chapel, circular wall renewed in the 16th century, on the edge well tower</dd>
<dd>Outer bailey with gate lodge of 1569</dd>
<dd><b>Shortly before the present castle entrance there are rainwater collection channels on the ground, which collected the water in large cisterns hewn out of the rock.</b></dd>
<dd><b> These were probably also used as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abreuvoir" class="extiw" title="w:Abreuvoir">watering places</a> for horses.</b><br></dd></dl><p><i><b>Place:</b></i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annweiler_am_Trifels" class="extiw" title="w:Annweiler am Trifels">Annweiler am Trifels</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annweiler_am_Trifels_(Verbandsgemeinde)" class="extiw" title="w:Annweiler am Trifels (Verbandsgemeinde)">Collective municipality Annweiler am Trifels</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCdliche_Weinstra%C3%9Fe" class="extiw" title="w:Südliche Weinstraße">Rural district Südliche Weinstraße</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rhineland-Palatinate" class="extiw" title="w:en:Rhineland-Palatinate"><span title="state of Germany">Rhineland-Palatinate</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Germany" class="extiw" title="w:en:Germany"><span title="country in Central Europe">Germany</span></a><br></p>
<i><b>Location:</b></i> southeast of the town on the Sonnenberg
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F._Riedelio" title="User:F. Riedelio">Friedrich Haag</a>
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<span class="int-own-work">Self-photographed</span>