Montfort Castle

Montfort Castle
מבצר מונפור
Part of Nahal Kziv Nature Reserve
Israel
Montfort Castle is located in Northwest Israel
Montfort Castle
Montfort Castle
Location within Israel
Coordinates33°02′41″N 35°13′34″E / 33.04472°N 35.22611°E / 33.04472; 35.22611
TypeSpur castle
Site information
Open to
the public
Yes
ConditionRuins
Site history
Built1228–1240, 1260s[1][2][3]
Built by Teutonic Order[3]
In use1230 – 1271[3]
Materialslimestone
Battles/warssieges 1266, 1271
The elongated central domestic wing

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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ a b c Burg Montfort | Burg Starkenberg: Historie, on burgenwelt.org