<dl><dd><i><b>Designation:</b></i> Monument zone castle ruin Erfenstein<br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Location:</b></i> Erfenstein (southeast of the village on a rocky outcrop of the Wassersteiner mountain overlooking the valley of Elmstein).<br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Place:</b></i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Esthal" title="Category:Esthal">Esthal</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bad_D%C3%BCrkheim" title="Bad Dürkheim">District Bad Dürkheim</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rheinland-Pfalz" title="Rheinland-Pfalz">Rhineland-Palatinate</a><br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Construction time:</b></i> Founded probably mid-13th century<br></dd>
<dd><i><b>Description:</b></i> Castle of the Counts of Leiningen, two-piece hill castle in mountain spurs, 1470 destroyed.<br><dl><dd>Remains of the circular wall and the donjon, bossage, the "Old Castle", donjon of the main castle, Sandstone-bossage<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>