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Berwartstein

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First mentioned in 1152, the castle was besieged, captured, and destroyed in 1314 by troops from the Alsatian cities of Strasbourg and Hagenau, accused of harboring robber barons. In its turbulent history, the castle was handed over in 1480, against the wishes of its owner (the Weißenburg Monastery), to Hans von Trotha (popularly known as Hans Trapp), who defied the monastery. He dammed the Wieslauter stream (resulting in a "water feud") and later broke the dam, flooding Weißenburg downstream. Neither the subsequent church excommunication nor the imperial ban deterred the knight, who became a legendary robber baron in the folklore of the Palatinate Forest ("...if you don't behave, Trapp will get you!"). After the castle was destroyed by a lightning strike and rebuilt in the late 19th century, Berwartstein has served as a residential castle with a restaurant and can still be partially visited today.


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