Remigiusberg

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Remigiusberg is a hill in the Kusel district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is 368 meters high and sits in the western part of the North Palatine Uplands, rising about 120 meters above the surrounding land. On the summit you’ll find the priory church of St. Remigius, the only building left from the old priory, and the ruins of Michelsburg Castle, which lie close to each other with a shallow dip between them.

The hill is in the Remigiusland area, west of the River Glan, near the village of Haschbach. The Potzberg, 562 meters high, is about 3 kilometers to the east across the Glan. Access to Remigiusberg is from the north via Kreisstraße 69, branching from Kreisstraße 21 between Haschbach and Rammelsbach. South of the summit, Landesstraße 362 connects Haschbach and Theisbergstegen.

Priory church: the site began as a castle in the 11th century and, in 1127, became a Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Remigius. It was part of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims. The monastery lasted until 1526, when it was dissolved during the Reformation. The bones of 15 members of the House of Palatinate-Veldenz are in the priory church.

Michelsburg: a castle built near the abbey in 1260, named after St. Michael. It is now a ruin. It belonged to the Counts of Veldenz, then to Palatinate-Zweibrücken. It was badly damaged in the Thirty Years’ War and the War of the Palatine Succession, and French troops destroyed it in the 1790s. In 1794 it was allowed to be used as a quarry, and restoration work was done in 1973–74.