| Montfort Castle | |
|---|---|
מבצר מונפור | |
| Part of Nahal Kziv Nature Reserve | |
| Israel | |
 | |
  Montfort Castle Location within Israel | |
| Coordinates | 33°02′41″N 35°13′34″E / 33.04472°N 35.22611°E |
| Type | Spur castle |
| Site information | |
| Open to the public | Yes |
| Condition | Ruins |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1228–1240, 1260s[1][2][3] |
| Built by |  Teutonic Order[3] |
| In use | 1230 – 1271[3] |
| Materials | limestone |
| Battles/wars | sieges 1266, 1271 |
Montfort (Hebrew: מבצר מונפור, Mivtzar Monfor; Arabic: قلعة القرين, Qal'at al-Qurain or Qal'at al-Qarn - "Castle of the Little Horn" or "Castle of the Horn") is a ruined Crusader castle in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, about 22 miles (35 km) northeast of the city of Haifa and 10 miles (16 km) south of the border with Lebanon.
The site is now a national park inside the Nahal Kziv nature reserve, and is an important tourist destination attracting many visitors from inside and outside Israel.
- ^ Kristjan Toomaspoeg (2017). Montfort Castle and the Order of the Teutonic Knights in the Latin East. In Adrian Boas (ed.): Montfort: history, early research and recent studies of the principal fortress of the Teutonic order in the Latin East, pp 21-22, series: Medieval Mediterranean (Book 107). Leiden & Boston: Brill. ISBN 9789004250468. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Review of Thomas Biller, Daniel Burger, Timm Radt: Montfort und der frühe Burgenbau des Deutschen Ordens ("Montfort and the Teutonic Order's Early Phase of Castle Building"), Michael Imhof Verlag (2015), ISBN 978-3-7319-0015-3. Reviewed by Thomas Wozniak, published on H-Soz-u-Kult (May, 2016)
- ^ a b c Burg Montfort | Burg Starkenberg: Historie, on burgenwelt.org