Murrmirnichtviel Castle

Murrmirnichtviel Castle, less commonly Murr-mir-nicht-viel, and very occasionally Murmel-nicht-viel, is the ruin of a hunting lodge with a watchtower that belonged to the Counts of Leiningen. It is located in the Palatinate Forest southwest of the district town of Bad Dürkheim (Rhineland-Palatinate).

Near the ruin, Roman graves were discovered, which are attributed to a Roman road station at this location. In 1534, a watchtower was first mentioned in a document and was still referred to as "die Klause," meaning a narrow, primitive dwelling. It was probably destroyed during the Thirty Years' War.

Presumably by Johann Friedrich von Leiningen (1661–1722), the tower – like the Leiningen hunting lodge Kehrdichannichts, only 600 meters away – was initially rebuilt and then also expanded into a Baroque hunting lodge for border security of the hunting grounds between Leiningen and the Electoral Palatinate. It is located slightly elevated on the southwest ridge of the Dreispitz; from the tower, one could observe the Electoral Palatinate neighbors.

However, a renewed destruction or decay must have occurred soon after, as early as 1781, the hunting lodge and watchtower were referred to as the Friedrichsburg ruin in a land register. By 1793 at the latest, when the French Revolution had also spread to the German territories on the left bank of the Rhine, the complex was finally burned down. The new name first appeared on a map from 1797.

In 1926, the walls were still five meters high. In 1963, the ruin was transferred from the care of the former Royal Bavarian Forest area to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1988/89, the remaining walls, which consist only of parts of the outer wall with window bases and the tower stump, were excavated and secured.