Hostel for the Count of Luxembourg
It´s a rainy, foggy November day in the year of the Lord 1216.
The Count of Luxembourg "Walram of Limburg", stops on the way to the young Friederich the 2nd for a night in Burg Wolfstein before traveling on to the Palatinate Lautern with his servant the next day.
Wolfstein Castle (Alt Wolfstein) was built as the northernmost element of the castle ring around the Palatinate Lautern (Kaiserslautern) from 1160. It was built as a residential tower with this surrounding high cladding wall. On the valley side there is also a residential building and several small farm buildings in an adjoining courtyard.
Alt Wolfstein Castle seen from the south out of the Lautertal. Commercial buildings behind the castle wall with wattle fence, residential building and the residential tower behind the wall.
Alt Wolfstein Castle. You can see farm buildings behind the castle wall with wattle fence, the castle courtyard, the residential building and the residential tower behind the wall.
Alt Wolfstein castle seen from the north with the residential tower, and the gate in the cladding wall through which one reached the narrow castle courtyard. This gate could only be crossed on foot. Horses had to be kept on the bridle.
Alt Wolfstein Castle seen from the north with the residential tower, the cladding wall and the narrow castle courtyard in which the vinous farm buildings can be seen.
Alt Wolfstein Castle seen from the north with the residential tower, the cladding wall, the residential building and the narrow castle courtyard in which the vinous commercial buildings can be seen.