The château du Falkenstein or Falkenstein Castle is a ruined castle in the commune of Philippsbourg in the Moselle département of France, at the heart of the Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord.
Falkenstein Castle's tower
View from the top of Château du Falkenstein
Marker at the top of Falkenstein placed by the Club vosgien, Strasbourg
The County of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged between 1456 and 1480 from a part of the County of Hanau and one half of the Barony of Lichtenberg. Following the e
Boundary marker between the Duchy of Lorraine and Hanau-Lichtenberg, installed in 1608
The portion of Hanau-Lichtenberg (in blue) within Alsace at the time it was annexed by France in 1680
Philip I (the Elder), progenitor of the line of Hanau-Lichtenberg on his epitaph in the municipal church of St. Nicholas in Babenhausen
Lichtenberg Castle from a Merian copperplate