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SP2005
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posted 03-24-2007 12:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SP2005   Click Here to Email SP2005     Edit/Delete Message
I'm looking for any information there is about Burg Reiffenstein. It should be placed in Austria, but where I'm not sure.

I'm related to this Reiffenstein family, way back in time.

Can some of you help me with this one ?

Thanks.

ipflo
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posted 03-24-2007 01:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ipflo   Click Here to Email ipflo     Edit/Delete Message
hi,

I am only aware of a castle Reifenstein/ Tasso Castle in Southern Tyrol (former Austria, now Italy):
http://www.dickemauern.de/reifstein/reifstein.htm
http://www.eisacktal.info/en/culture/burgen.htm

But this castle has always be owned by the German order and later the counts of Thurn and Taxis. So I am not sure if this is the castle where you are looking for.

ipflo

Merlin
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posted 03-24-2007 05:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Merlin   Click Here to Email Merlin     Edit/Delete Message
There is also a castle Rifenstein in the Canton Basel-Land, Switzerland: http://www.dickemauern.de/rifenstein/index.htm

Not very much is known about the history of that castle, which was standing very exposed on a steep rock. There may have been a family "von Rifenstein" in the 12th century, but it's not sure if the document in which that is written down is true or a fake.

SP2005
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posted 03-25-2007 01:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SP2005   Click Here to Email SP2005     Edit/Delete Message
Thanks ipflo - It looks like the right one you have found

I did not know that there only was one f in the reifenstein name. Thats why it was so hard for me to find any information about this castle.

SP2005
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posted 03-25-2007 01:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SP2005   Click Here to Email SP2005     Edit/Delete Message
Merlin - I do not think thats the one I'm looking for. But thanks for your help.

pikeroy
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posted 03-27-2007 06:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pikeroy     Edit/Delete Message
There is also a castle by the name of Reifenstein near Poels in Styria.
For more information see http://www.burgenseite.com/reifenstein_txt.htm

Merlin
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posted 03-28-2007 04:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Merlin   Click Here to Email Merlin     Edit/Delete Message
Wow. I didn't know that one. Looks absolutely fantastic. But needs to be saved urgently! One of the towers looks as if it would tumble down in the next years. Shame on Styria that they let such a castle fall into pieces...

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