The Hambach Castle in Hambach, Rhineland-Palatinate town of New Town was on the wine road actually built as a castle . It is because of the Hambach Festival, which took place there in 1832, as a symbol of German democracy movement.
The Hambach Castle is named after him on the Schlossberg, a 325 m high foothills of the Haardt, which forms the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest. From here, offers a magnificent panorama about 200 m down to the vine hills on either side of the German Wine Road to the east and to the subsequent Upper Rhine Valley. Therefore, the system controlled both as protection and as a robber baron's castle at the Neustadt intersecting trade routes and also the northern route of the front section of the Palatine Road to Santiago.
was 1832, the castle ruins by the four-day protest of about 30,000 people to the scene of the early efforts of democracy on German soil.
occasion was the dissatisfaction of the population of Palatine repression of the Bavarian government. This had to be withdrawn in the years from 1816 on important achievements that the nation has received in the period of occupation by France were. After the Bavarian government had introduced strict censorship and banned political rallies, the organizers gave the event a "festival" from. The Palatines were helping with numerous other groups and individuals. Since that hard Hambach Castle is the symbol of democracy in Germany.
The Hambach Castle is named after him on the Schlossberg, a 325 m high foothills of the Haardt, which forms the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest. From here, offers a magnificent panorama about 200 m down to the vine hills on either side of the German Wine Road to the east and to the subsequent Upper Rhine Valley. Therefore, the system controlled both as protection and as a robber baron's castle at the Neustadt intersecting trade routes and also the northern route of the front section of the Palatine Road to Santiago.
was 1832, the castle ruins by the four-day protest of about 30,000 people to the scene of the early efforts of democracy on German soil.
occasion was the dissatisfaction of the population of Palatine repression of the Bavarian government. This had to be withdrawn in the years from 1816 on important achievements that the nation has received in the period of occupation by France were. After the Bavarian government had introduced strict censorship and banned political rallies, the organizers gave the event a "festival" from. The Palatines were helping with numerous other groups and individuals. Since that hard Hambach Castle is the symbol of democracy in Germany.