Trifels Castle (German: Reichsburg Trifels (literally translated: Imperial Castle Trifels)) is a medieval castle at an elevation 310m near the small town of Annweiler, in the Palatinate, Germany. It is located on one peak of a three-way split red sandstone rock. (The name Trifels means threefold rock.) The Trifels Castle is on the peak Sonnenberg (literally translated: sun mountain), and on both of the other two rock elevations there are castle ruins: Anebos and Münz.
Castle Trifels, where replicas of the Imperial Regalia (Reichskleinodien) of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation can be viewed, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Palatinate.
First mentioned in a document of 1081, in the 12th and 13th centuries it was a place of safekeeping for the Imperial Regalia of the Salian and Hohenstaufen Emperors. The castle is most famous as the place where the English King Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) was imprisoned after his return from the crusades (a period of three weeks is well documented: 31 March to 19 April 1193).
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