- The
Sporkenburg is a late
medieval castle ruin
about one
kilometre south of
Eitelborn in the
district of
Westerwaldkreis in the
German state of Rhineland-Palatinate...
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shield wall
replaced the bergfried, for
example in the
ruined castle of
Sporkenburg in the
Westerwald forest or the
ruins of the Alt
Eberstein near the city...
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stemming from the arms
borne by the
Lords of Helfenstein, who
built the
Sporkenburg castle. The
golden castle outer wall
shows the
building as it is today...
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Hachenburg Hartenfels Castle,
Hartenfels Schloss Montabaur,
Montabaur Sporkenburg,
Eitelborn Steinebach Castle,
Steinebach Westerburg Castle (WW), Westerburg...
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entrance of the
hospital Evangelisches Stift St.
Martin Zur
Geschichte der
Sporkenburg, 1900. Die
Herren von Helfenstein, 1906. Das
ehemalige Jesuitenkolleg...
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endowed the
chapel of
Saint Mary in the Valley. In 1529,
Johann von N****au-
Sporkenburg, heir to the Hut family,
opened the
former private chapel to the residents...
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transferred half the
Elbert landlordship to the
Lords of N****au (at the
Sporkenburg,
which was a castle) as a fief. In 1602,
three fourths of the landlordship...
