Neu-Baumburg Castle

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The Castle New Castle tree, also Neu-Bamberg, called Neubamberg, is the ruins of a hilltop castle above the town of Neu-Bamberg district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate.

The castle was built around 1253 by the Raugrafen, 1253 mentioned as " Novum castrum apud Sarlesheim " and in 1283 in the possession of Raugrafen Henry II of New Castle tree.

On April 12 In 1338, half of the castle and the village of the Raugrafen for 1,300 pounds Heller to Archbishop Henry III. pledged of Mainz and on March 11, 1419, the Archbishop of Mainz Johann II and Count Johann V. von Sponheim - Starkenburgring share the inner castle. 1668, the castle was destroyed by the Elector Charles Louis of the Palatinate.

After 1970 found consuming restorations instead of partial masonry above the vault of the ruin.

The installation of the castle consists of an irregularly rectangular main castle in the northwest and the deeper fore-castle on the west side. East of the nuclear installation is the Catholic Church of St. Dionysius, which dates back in part to the medieval castle chapel.