Lichtenstein Castle (Osterode Am Harz)
Lichtenstein Castle may refer to the following castles: Austria * Liechtenstein Castle (Maria Enzersdorf), near Maria Enzersdorf in Lower Austria, bordering Vienna Germany * Lichtenstein Castle (Württemberg) near Lichtenstein-Honau, Baden-Württemberg * Lichtenstein Castle (Lower Franconia) in the municipality of Pfarrweisach, Lower Franconia, Bavaria * Lichtenstein Castle (Greifenstein) in the municipality of Greifenstein, Hesse Switzerland * Lichtenstein Castle (Graubünden) Lichtenstein Castle is a ruined castle in the Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality of Haldenstein of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. History The Lichtenstein family first appears in a document in Chur in 1180. The castle was p ...

Liechtenstein Castle (Maria Enzersdorf)
Liechtenstein Castle (german: Burg Liechtenstein) is a privately owned castle near Maria Enzersdorf in Lower Austria, bordering Vienna. It is on the edge of the '' Wienerwald'' (Vienna Woods). The castle, originally built during the 12th century, was destroyed by the Ottomans in the siege of Vienna in 1529, and again in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, and it remained in ruins until 1884, when it was rebuilt with the help of architect Carl Gangolf Kayser. Liechtenstein (German for "bright stone") Castle is the place of origin of the House of Liechtenstein, the ruling family of the Principality of Liechtenstein. The family owned the castle from at least 1140 until the 13th century, and again from 1808 to the present. Today, the castle hosts the Nestroy Theatre Festival, which is held annually during the summer months. The 1969 film ''A Walk with Love and Death'', the 1971 film ''The Vampire Happening'', the 1979 film ''The Fifth Musketeer'', and the 1993 film ''The Three Musket ...
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Lichtenstein Castle (Württemberg)
Lichtenstein Castle () is a privately owned Gothic Revival castle located in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany. It was designed by Carl Alexander Heideloff and its name means "shining stone" or "bright stone". The castle overlooks the Echaz valley near Honau, Reutlingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg. The modern castle was inspired by Wilhelm Hauff's 1826 novel '' Lichtenstein'' and was built in 1840–1842. The ruins of an older medieval castle are a few hundred meters away. Geography The castle is located on an escarpment that marks the northwestern edge of the Swabian Jura. It is in the Reutlingen district and has an altitude of . and about above the Echaz river, a small tributary of the Neckar river. The ruins of Lichtenstein Castle's medieval predecessor, the Burg Alt-Lichtenstein, lies away. History Beginning around 1100, a castle belonging to a family of ministerials of the counts of Achalm and later counts of Württemberg, was located on the escarpment ab ...
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Lichtenstein Castle (Lower Franconia)
Lichtenstein Castle (german: Burg Lichtenstein) is a high to late medieval hill castle, , about six kilometres north of Ebern in the Lower Franconian county of Haßberge in Bavaria. It is located in the municipality of Pfarrweisach. Of the originally four sub-castles of this great joint-fief or ''Ganerbenburg'' only one, the South Castle, is still occupied. The North Castle only survives as ruins. On the site of the now vanished third castle the Protestant Church of the Eternal Flame (''Zum Ewigen Licht'') was built in the Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ... era. In the southwestern part of the site lie the ruins of a fourth joint-vassal castle seat. Literature Castle history * ''Die Kunstdenkmäler des Königreichs Bayern III, 15, Bezirksamt Ebern''. ...
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Lichtenstein Castle (Greifenstein)
Lichtenstein Castle (german: Burg Lichtenstein) is a levelled spur castle on the hill of Burgberg Lichtenstein, , near the Greifenstein village of Holzhausen on the old military High Road, that ran from Frankfurt via Wetzlar to Cologne. The castle site is situated to the north of, and above, the Ulmbach Reservoir in the Hessian county of Lahn-Dill-Kreis. History The little castle on a hill spur was probably built around 1225 by the Lords of Lichtenstein, close relatives of the Lords of Greifenstein. This is not, however, clear from the records, because it is unclear, whether Conrad of Lichtenstein, who is named in deeds in 1225 and 1229, also belonged to the family of the Lichtensteins in Greifenstein. Many secondary sources deduce that the castle was first built around 1250 by the brothers, Werner and Kraft of Lichtenstein. Like Greifenstein, Lichtenstein was captured and destroyed in 1298 by Counts John of Nassau (died 1328) and Henry of Solms-Burgsolms (died c. 1313) al ...
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