Wolfstein is a town and a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Lauter, approx. 15 km north-east of Kusel, and 20 km north-west of Kaiserslautern. Kusel is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... Kusel is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the district Kusel. ... Kaiserslautern, Germany lies 80 miles southwest of Frankfurt, 295 miles northeast of Paris, France. ...
Wolfstein is also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Wolfstein, which consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"): A Verbandsgemeinde (plural Verbandsgemeinden) is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...
In early medieval times the region was ruled by the counts of Wolfstein, while the city of Neumarkt was directly subordinate to the emperor and hence independent from the Wolfstein family.
In the 14th century the counts of Wolfstein, as well as the city of Neumarkt, became subordinate to the Palatinate, and in 1628 to Bavaria.
The district in its present shape was established in 1972, when the city of Neumarkt lost its status as an urban district and was incorporated into the district.
Wolfstein is later captivated by the alluring beauty of Magalena, who has been abducted by the bandits, and plots to poison Cavigni, chief of the bandits, only to be saved from almost certain death by an enigmatic bandit called Ginotti.
Wolfstein keeps his part of the bargain and meets with Ginotti who passes on the elixir to him but, in a reversal of the Rosicrucian concept of the successor, they both die as a result.
Wolfstein's demise from receiving the elixir is also puzzling, though it might be explained by his lack of a fiendish nature and Shelley's conflation of the Rosicrucian tradition with the figure of the Wandering Jew, who seeks to escape the curse of eternal life.
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