page_title: Rietburg
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: Rietburg / History / Construction
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Rietburg bei Rhodt (Pfalz), eigenhändige Rekonstruktionszeichnung (frei nach Arndt Hartung
context_page_description: The Rietburg is a ruined hillside castle on the edge of the Palatinate Forest above the village of Rhodt in the county of Südliche Weinstrasse in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  The remains of this castle are located on the side of the 613-metre-high Blättersberg mountain.
context_section_description: The construction of Rietburg castle is dated to the period 1200 to 1204 and ascribed to the lords of Riet. These noblemen were initially vassals of the North Alsatian Benedictine abbey of Weißenburg, later they became ministeriales and feudatories of the then German Hohenstaufen lords. The family came from the region between Speyer and Germersheim and had taken their name from their place of origin along the River Rhine that had been colonised by reeds (German: Riet = "reed"). They were first mentioned in 1149 in a deed belonging to the South Palatine abbey of Eußerthal. The castle was built by Conrad II of Riet, the eldest of six sons of Conrad I and his wife, Adelheid, whom he married in 1184.
caption: Artist's impression
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