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Ebernburg Castle

Coordinates: 49°48′25.4″N 7°50′19″E / 49.807056°N 7.83861°E / 49.807056; 7.83861 (Ebernburg Castle)
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Ebernburg Castle
Burg Ebernburg (German)
Ebernburg Castle in 2007
Ebernburg Castle is located in Germany
Ebernburg Castle
Ebernburg Castle
Location within Germany
General information
TypeCastle
Town or cityBad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
CountryGermany
Coordinates49°48′25.4″N 7°50′19″E / 49.807056°N 7.83861°E / 49.807056; 7.83861 (Ebernburg Castle)
Completed1338 (686 years ago) (1338)
AffiliationHouse of Sickingen

Ebernburg Castle (German: Burg Ebernburg) is a hilltop castle above the town of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Built in 1338, it was the ancestral seat of the lords of Sickingen, and the birthplace of Franz von Sickingen, the famous landsknecht captain and protector of Ulrich von Hutten, to whom a monument was erected on the slope near the castle ruins in 1889.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Münster am Stein". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. XIX (11th ed.). Cambridge, England: University Press. 1911. p. 12 – via Internet Archive.
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