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Neurathen Castle (Ruin) (Rathen)
The Neurathen ruin, a rock castle, presides near the Bastei at Rathen in Saxon Switzerland. As the largest rock castle in the region, only the rooms carved into the rock, passages, the cistern, and the bearing surfaces of the former wooden structures remain today. Parts of the complex were reconstructed and made accessible as an open-air museum between 1982 and 1984.
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The origins of Neurathen rock castle, which was located on the then northern border of Bohemia, are not fully clear. Archaeological finds suggest settlement as early as the Bronze Age. The first indirect written mention occurred in 1261 in a document recording a dispute between the Bishop of Meißen and Bohemian feudal lords, including Teodoricus de Raten. In 1289, a document mentions a “Castrum Raten.”
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