Tanstein Castle

Tanstein Castle
Burg Tanstein
Dahn
The castles of Dahn
Site information
Typehill castle, on rock outcrop
CodeDE-RP
Conditionruin
Location
Tanstein Castle
Tanstein Castle
Coordinates49°09′01″N 7°48′11″E / 49.1504°N 7.8030°E / 49.1504; 7.8030
Site history
Builtbetween 1100 and 1127

Tanstein Castle (German: Burg Tanstein) is the ruin of a rock castle in the southern Palatine Forest, the German part of the Wasgau region. It lies just under a kilometre east of the small town of Dahn in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.