Neurathen Castle (german: Felsenburg Neurathen), which was first mentioned by this name in 1755,http://www.raubschlösser.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=64 is located near the famous

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rocks near

Rathen Rathen is a village in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, in Saxony, Germany, about southeast of Dresden. The village occupies both banks of the river Elbe and, as of 2020, has 339 inhabitants. Rathen is a popular tourist destination, the main sigh ...

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in the German state of

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. This was once the largest

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in the region, but today only the rooms carved out of the rock, passages, the

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and rebates for the timber of the former wooden superstructure have survived. In the years 1982–1984 parts of the extensive castle were used to build the

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* Anne Müller, Matthias Weinhold: ''Felsenburgen der Sächsischen Schweiz. Neurathen - Winterstein - Arnstein.'' Reihe Burgen, Schlösser und Wehrbauten in Mitteleuropa Band 23, Verlag Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg 2010, * Richard Vogel: ''Gebiet Königstein Sächsische Schweiz''. Reihe

Werte unserer Heimat Werte der deutschen Heimat (literally "Values of the German Homeland") originally ''Werte der Deutschen Heimat'' and, between 1970 and 1990 called ''Werte unserer Heimat'', was a series of publications by former East German Academy of Sciences at B ...

Band 1, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2. Auflage 1985

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