Drachenfels Castle
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Drachenfels Castle is a castle ruin near Busenberg in the Palatinate Forest in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
It is located on and inside a sandstone rock in 368m height. Literally translated the name means Dragons Rock. It is unknown when the castle was built, but the keepers, the gents of Drachenstein where first documentally mentioned in 1209.