The castle Neu Baumburg, also called Neu-Bamberg, Neubamberg, is the ruin of an elevated castle above the community Neu-Bamberg. It was built around 1253 by the Raugrafen, mentioned in 1253 as "Novum castrum apud Sarlesheim" and in 1283 in the possession of the Raugrafen Heinrich II of Neuenbaumburg. On April 12, 1338, half of the castle and the village was pledged by the roughnecks to Archbishop Heinrich III of Mainz for 1,300 pounds of heller and on March 11, 1419, Archbishop Johann II of Mainz and Count Johann V of Sponheim-Starkenburg shared the inner castle. In 1668 the castle was destroyed by the Elector Karl Ludwig of the Palatinate. After 1970, extensive restorations were carried out with partial walling up of the ruins. The castle complex consists of an irregular rectangular core castle in the northwest and the lower lying outer castle on the west side. To the east of the core complex is the Catholic Church of St. Dionysius, which is partly derived from the medieval castle chapel. The castle ruins lie immediately to the east above the village. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
