The Wachenburg () is a

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on a hill overlooking

Weinheim Weinheim (; pfl, Woinem) is a town with about 43,000 inhabitants in northwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, approximately north of Heidelberg and northeast of Mannheim. Weinheim is known as the "Zwei ...

an der Bergstrasse, in

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. It was built between 1907 and 1928 by the

Weinheimer Senioren-Convent The Weinheimer Senioren-Convent (abbreviation: WSC) is the second oldest association of German Studentenverbindungen. It comprises roughly 60 German ''Corps'', all of which are based upon the principle of tolerance. The WSC had been founded in ...

, a Corps of former students. The castle contains a restaurant with a nice view of the country.

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