<dl><dd><i><b>Designation:</b></i> Monument zone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_Castle" class="extiw" title="en:Hambach Castle">Hambach Castle</a> (also Maxburg)<br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Location:</b></i> At the top of a wooded foothill on the Haardtrand, southwest of the village on the Schlossberg.<br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Place:</b></i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_an_der_Weinstra%C3%9Fe" class="extiw" title="en:Hambach an der Weinstraße">Quarter Hambach</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neustadt_an_der_Weinstra%C3%9Fe" class="extiw" title="en:Neustadt an der Weinstraße">Neustadt an der Weinstraße</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rhineland-Palatinate" class="extiw" title="w:en:Rhineland-Palatinate"><span title="state of Germany">Rhineland-Palatinate</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Germany" class="extiw" title="w:en:Germany"><span title="country in Central Europe">Germany</span></a><br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Construction time:</b></i> Founded probably in the first half of the 11th century.<br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Description:</b></i> From 1100 to the early 19th century owned by the cathedral chapter of Speyer, expanded several times, especially in the 13th century.<br><dl><dd>Multiple restored, slighting 1688, under Crown Prince Maximilian 1845-46 neo-Gothic extension by August von Voit.</dd>
<dd>Reinstatement 1955-57 and 1965-69.</dd>
<dd>1979-82 thorough restoration and complete interior design (architects H. Augeneder, Bad Dürkheim and H. Römer, Kaiserslautern).</dd>
<dd>Restoration of the outer circular wall 1994 to 2000, conversion from 2006 onwards.</dd>
<dd>Remains of a post-Carolingian Ottonian wall (9th / 10th. Century).</dd>
<dd>Partially developed ruin of the "Kestenburg", remains of the donjon, probably about 1200, high facing, four-storey Palas of the 13th century, outer ring wall.</dd>
<dd>Small residuals of the neo-Gothic castle.<br></dd></dl></dd></dl>
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F._Riedelio" title="User:F. Riedelio">Friedrich Haag</a>
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<span class="int-own-work">Self-photographed</span>