Veldenz Castle

Veldenz Castle changed into built on a spur above the village of Nohfelden in Landkreis Sankt Wendel inside the northeast of Saarland, Germany. The hill castle is first cited in 1285, in a record stipulating that its builder, Count William Bossel II of Stein from Oberstein an der Nahe had to allow his liege lord, the Count of Veldenz to apply the fortress in case of warfare or a feud. The Dukes of Palatinate-Zweibrucken obtained the Lordship of Nohfelden, such as Veldenz Castle, in the center of the fifteenth century. The fort served in 1490 as the level for one of the saddest chapters inside the records of Palatinate-Zweibrucken: after the death of Duke Louis the Black, his sons Kaspar and Alexander ruled the duchy at the same time for a yr.

Then Alexander had his older brother locked up inside the castle, claiming that Kaspar changed into mad. Kaspar remained locked up in Veldenz citadel until his dying in 1527, even after Alexander's death. The citadel became often broken within the many wars of the seventeenth century, but turned into repaired equally regularly. In 1661, Duke Frederick of Zweibrucken-Veldenz died on the fortress. In 1804 the fortress was nationalized by the French state, then bought off to the Cetto brothers from Sankt Wendel. They used the fortress as a supply of building substances. The municipality of Nohfelden is the present day owner of the castle.