Kastel-Staadt,
here there is the first Romanesque chapel

Kastel-Staadt high lies above the valley of the lower Saar on a sandstone plateau. Celts and Romans already knew how to use before Christ the unusual position as a strategical base. With excavations antique findings came by the days which cover this: Building, affected with well-preserved mural paintings, an eight meter wide Roman street and the water systems quite natural at that time.

After a history full of change Kastel became in the threshold 17. Cent. domicile of a French Franciscan's father. As his Einsiedlerklause he dug two chambers in the sandstone cliff of the hermitage mountain. Soon there originated nearby the first Romanesque chapel. The hermitage which has been preserved till this day is to be owed to Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV who allowed to establish a tomb and the following ür the blind Bohemian's king Johann by his master builder Karl Friedrich von Schinkel.

Till this day they are also„ Old village church“ from 12. Cent. and the honorary cemetery with his high above the Saar valley situated Mahnkreuz centers of attraction remaining. Best of all one can experience the history full of change of Kastel-Staadt during a walk by the newly invested archaeological round footpath.

Cultivated footpaths lead to the monumental old cliff and by the rock path with weird cliff formations of the new red sandstone. The ways are bound to the European distant footpath the Atlantic Bohemian Forest and the international Deu-Fra-Lux-Weg.