The remains of the Castle can be visited
CastleHomburg
Hohenburg Castle
The Hohenburg castle ruin, also called Homburg Castle or Hohenburg Fortress, stands on the 325 m high Schlossberg (Castle Hill) above the Schlossberg Caves in Homburg in the Saarpfalz district in Saarland.
In the 12th century, the hilltop castle was the seat of the Counts of Homburg. In 1330, Ludwig the Bavarian granted them town rights for their settlement at the foot of the Schlossberg. After the death of the last Count of Homburg in 1449, the castle and town fell to the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken. They converted the castle into a Renaissance palace in the second half of the 16th century and subsequently expanded it into a fortress.
During the Reunification period, King Louis XIV had the fortress expanded and the town fortified by his master fortress builder Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The basic structure of Homburg's old town dates from this period. The fortifications were first razed in 1697 and definitively in 1714 and served as a quarry for the construction of Karlsberg Castle. From 1981, the complex was excavated and restored.
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