The castle
It was in 1354 that Duke Wenceslas of Luxembourg granted permission to Renaud of Waimes to build a castle on this site. Due to the extinction of the family of Waimes, the caslte is taken over successively by the families Zivelle, Brandscheid and Naussau.
In 1550 following the marriage of Anne Naussau to Guillaume of Metternich, Reinhardstein becomes the property of this important Rhineland family, until French Revolution.
In 1812, Count Metternich, father of the Chancellor Klement (Congress of Vienna), sells the building. Abandoned, she strongly degrades over time ...
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