Neuleiningen Castle | |
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Burg Neuleiningen | |
Neuleiningen | |
Coordinates | 49°32′34″N 8°08′23″E / 49.5428°N 8.1397°E |
Type | hill castle |
Code | DE-RP |
Height | 300 m above sea level (NN) |
Site information | |
Condition | ruin |
Site history | |
Built | around 1240 |
Garrison information | |
Occupants | counts |
Neuleiningen Castle is a ruin on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany in the municipality of Neuleiningen in the Bad Dürkheim district. It was built in 1238-41 by Count Frederick III of Leiningen. The French destroyed it in 1690 and it has lain in ruins since that time.