Like most of the castles in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Landeck Castle was built in approximately 1200. It served probably the ...
The dominant feature of the Diez townscape is the high medieval castle. The oldest parts of the structure date from the eleve ...
Merode estate was first time mentioned in 1170 and it was originally built by ministrial Werner from Kerpen. The first mentio ...
Blomberg Castle was built in in the 13th century. Simon I of Lippe extented the castle as a residence in the early 14th centu ...
Ehrenburg Castle was built on a promontory in the Ehrbach valley (Ehrbachtal), a tributary valley of the Mosel. It was once u ...
Lichtenstein Castle is a high to late medieval hill castle about six kilometres north of Ebern in the Lower Franconian county ...
The ruins of Frauenstein Castle are located on a 680 metres high granite rock on the crest of the Eastern Ore Mountains near ...
Landskron castle itself was probably built in the early 13th century. Is first mentioned in 1244. This castle was destroyed i ...
Stettenfels Castle was built in the 11th century, probably at about the same time as many other castles in the area. From 135 ...
Kronburg Castle was first time mentioned in 1227. In the 13th and 14th centuries it changed hands several times between Hohen ...
Bedburg Castle was mentioned in the 12th century, but it was destroyed by the army of Cologne archbishop in 1278. Johann von ...
Illingen Castle was documented first time in 1359 when it was owned by Dietrich V. von Kerpen (this is why castle is also cal ...
Bergerhausen Castle in Blatzheim was built in the 13th century and the current stucture dates mainly from the 16th century. T ...
Berwartstein Castle was one of the rock castles that were part of defences of the Palatinate during the Middle Ages. There is ...
Drachenfels Castle is located about seven kilometres north of the Franco-German border on the eponymous 150-metre-long bunter ...
Wachtenburg Castle, dating back to the 12th century, is the town"s landmark which can be seen from afar and is also kno ...
Hellenstein Castle was once the home of the Lords of Hellenstein. The castle was first built during the 12th century. The cas ...
The fortress of Lichtenau goes back to a medieval water castle. In 1406 Nuremberg purchased the village and the castle of Lic ...
The origins of Randeck Castle are unknown, but in the tenth century Duke Arnulf may have built built the first medieval fortr ...
Duke Ulrich built Schorndorf Castle in 1538 on the site of what had probably been an older moated stronghold. It formed part ...