Reipoltskirchen has the best-preserved "moated castle" in the Palatinate. Built in the last third of the 13th century, the castle complex on the artificial hill surrounded by a circular wall does not look like a ruin, but like an inhabited castle due to the residential buildings along the circular wall. A seventeen-metre-high keep guards it, a wide moat in which the water of the Odenbach is dammed protects the romantic idyll.
The lookout tower is freely accessible all year round.

www.wasserburg-reipoltskirchen.de

Veldenz Castle, which grew out of a medieval moated castle, was built in the early 16th century under Count Palatine Ruprecht as the residence of the Counts of Palatinate-Veldenz. In the 18th century, it was largely rebuilt as an Electoral Palatinate chief bailiwick. The original fortified tower (Veldenzturm) houses the registry office and a portrait gallery of the counts.

Milchgasse 1
67742 Lauterecken
Tel: 049 6382 8541 

www.lauterecken.de