Library and Archives
The castle's extensive archives reach back to the 16th century, and have been available at the state archives in Amberg since early July 2006. A substantial part of the archives was supposedly used to accommodate horses of French troops passing through in 1796.
The whereabouts of the precious castle's library were not known until an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (28 October 2006, p. 48) announced that a large amount of literature would be auctioned off in Munich in November 2006. Since some of these books were offered in online antique book shops soon thereafter, it is likely that the Neidstein library as a whole is lost.
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