Burg Randeck

En un regard

Le château en bref

On the Schlossberg overlooking the Alsenz, at Mannweiler-Cölln, the ruin of Randeck is a hilltop castle probably founded in the twelfth century; a Heinrich von Randeck is mentioned there in 1202. From 1248, three branches of the Randeck zu Löwenstein family shared the site, which became a condominium castle (Ganerbenburg) with up to eight co-owners in the sixteenth century, among them the Flörsheim and the Wachenheim families. The Randeck line died out in 1521, and the Reigersberg family took possession of the castle in 1668 after the extinction of the Löwenstein line. In 1690, during the War of the Palatine Succession, the French captured the stronghold and blew up the keep. The ruin was then used as a quarry, and the last buildings disappeared in the nineteenth century. Excavations and consolidation work have continued since 1978. The site, owned by the local history association Kulturhistorischer Verein Mannweiler-Cölln, retains sections of the curtain wall, an angle bastion, flanking towers and the foundations of the keep.