Scharfenberg Castle (Palatinate)

Scharfenberg Castle (Burg Scharfenberg, popularly also called Münz), is the ruin of a medieval rock castle in the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is situated above the small South Palatine town of Annweiler.

Geography
The hill castle lies in the forest estate of the municipality of Leinsweiler at a height of 489 metres on a rocky hill with a rounded summit, typical of the Wasgau region, as the southern part of the Palatine Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges is called. Scharfenberg and its sister castles, Trifels and Anebos are known as the Trifels Group and are the symbol of Annweiler, which sprawls beneath them in the valley meadows of the River Queich. In the immediate vicinity lie the sites of two other castles, the Fensterfels and the Has.

Literature

 * Rüdiger Bernges: Felsenburgen im Wasgau. Warlich Druck Ahrweiler GmbH, Wuppertal, 2005, ISBN 3-930376-25-3, p. 261–263.
 * Walter Herrmann: Auf rotem Fels. G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe, 2004, ISBN 3-7650-8286-4, pp. 184–185.
 * Jürgen Keddigkeit, Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel: Pfälzisches Burgenlexikon, Band 4.1. Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde, Kaiserslautern, 2007, ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0, pp. 424–439.
 * Alexander Thon (ed.): ... wie eine gebannte, unnahbare Zauberburg. Burgen in der Südpfalz. 2., verbesserte Auflage. Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg, 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1570-5, pp. 132–137.
 * Alexander Thon (ed.): ... wie eine gebannte, unnahbare Zauberburg. Burgen in der Südpfalz. 2., verbesserte Auflage. Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg, 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1570-5, pp. 132–137.