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Comment: with a great view of the town below and Ramstein AB in the distance to the right.
  
IMG_1250 * and in the bright sunlight are most colorful surrounding...

IMG_1249 * the towns old water well.

IMG_8667 * We head up the hill out of town getting our last look at the vineyards below.

IMG_8676 * Above Landsthuhl is the Nanstein - the Sickingen Castle...

IMG_8671 * built about the year 1160 by the Emperor Barbarossa.
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IMG_8669 * Of course, Carol finds a furry friend, a border collie pup.

IMG_8679 * What's that at the gate guardhouse?

IMG_8677 * The red sandstone-rock, reaches 15 m beyond the top of the 80 m high castle-mountain.

IMG_8681 * In 1475 the Knights of Sickingen gained the castle by marriage. The famous Knight Franz von Sickingen (1481-1523) fortified the castle in 1518, but fell in battle in 1523 against 3 powerfull princes of the Empire.

IMG_8683 * From 1543 on, his sons and grandsons rebuilt the battered castle, till in 1600 it was a magnificent palace.