Kehrdichannichts Lodge

As early as 1588, there was evidence of gamekeeping in the forest area near Bad Dürkheim. An older building, probably serving as a hunting base for nobles, likely stood on the site of the current castle and did not survive the Palatine War of Succession. The name Kehrdichannichts for the plateau was first mentioned in 1651 and later adopted for the castle. Count Johann Friedrich von Leiningen had a new wooden hunting lodge built in 1707 to observe the neighboring Electoral Palatinate hunting grounds and secure the borders. Construction of a hunting castle began in 1717, but Count Johann Friedrich died in 1722 before its completion. His son Friedrich Magnus completed the complex in the same year; his relief still adorns a stone wall. Until his death in 1756, Count Friedrich Magnus used the castle as his hunting residence. Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm became his successor. During the French Revolution, the hunting lodge was presumably burned down in 1793. In 1816, under Bavarian rule, the originally two-story building was rebuilt as a single-story structure and served as a forester's lodge until 1891.