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Stauf Castle (Ruin)
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The Stauf castle ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the 535-meter-high "Burgberg" mountain cone above the Stauf district of the market town Thalmässing in the Central Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria.
The castle ruin is located on a platform with a diameter of approximately 45 meters. The central palas from the 13th century was originally surrounded by wide moats. From 1309, the castle was destroyed several times, but rebuilt twice on imperial command. Only after the war between Margrave Albrecht Achilles and Ludwig the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut in 1460 did the castle fall into ruin. In the Second World War, the castle and the village were severely hit again. Of the castle, only the so-called Kastnerhaus, an early Rococo building, has been preserved. Today, a private owner inhabits the partially developed castle area, which cannot be visited.
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