Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate
Wolfstein was founded in 1275 on Habsburg King Rudolph I's orders, which called for a “fortified and free” town near his castle, “Woluisstein”, now known as the "Alt-Wolfstein" (“Old Wolfstein”) ruin. Rudolph forthwith granted the new town the same town rights and freedoms as the town of Speyer. As an “everlasting marketplace”, it was to be a sanctuary for commerce, trade and dealing. The first townsmen and -women came from the surrounding, much older villages.
Wolfstein, Rhineland-Palatinate
In the “Bavarian Rhine District” ("Bayerischer Rheinkreis" – that is, the Bavarian Palatinate), Wolfstein was grouped into the "Landkommissariat" of Kusel (from 1862 "Bezirksamt" and from 1939 "Landratsamt").