List of castles, fortifications and palaces in the Eifel
It lists castles , fortifications and palaces in the Eifel , from the Celts to the early modern period . The list includes systems in the area of the urban quadrilateral Aachen, Bonn, Koblenz and Trier - reaching somewhat into Luxembourgish and Belgian. Ornamental and replicas that were never used as residential buildings or for defense are not listed .
Legend
- Name : gives the official name of the structure. Possible other names are mentioned in the articles.
- Location : Shows the location, city, municipality, possibly also neighboring country, Belgium, Luxembourg.
- District : AC - City Region Aachen, AW - District Ahrweiler, BIT - Eifel District Bitburg-Prüm, DAU - District Vulkaneifel, DN - Düren, EU - District Euskirchen, MYK - District Mayen-Koblenz
- Country : Federal state: NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia), RP (Rhineland-Palatinate), but also B (Belgium), L (Luxembourg)
- Type : Indicates the respective building type: For castles mostly according to their geographical allocation; If possible, castles are classified according to their type; z. B. in residential castle, hunting lodge, palace.
- Date of origin : Shows (if known) the year of construction. For castles, it is usually only possible to first mention them in documents or to date them according to the architectural style in certain periods of time.
- State of preservation and current use : Describes the current state of the building, a castle is said to be abandoned if there are no more remains - Burgstall if there are no more remains above ground. It is noted if the building is privately owned or not accessible.
- Image: If possible, shows an appropriate photo, picture or drawing of the building, ruin or castle stables. Often only subsequent buildings need to be documented.
list
Surname | place | circle | country | Type | Time of origin | State of preservation and current use | image |
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Monschau Castle | Monschau | AC | NRW | Hilltop castle | 13th century | largely preserved, today a youth hostel, old people's home | |
Haller | Monschau | AC | NRW | Höhenburg, residential tower | probably 13th century | ruin | |
Reichenstein Monastery | Monschau | AC | NRW | Hilltop castle | 11th century | nothing preserved, donated to the Premonstratensian order in 1131/36 because of an unfavorable strategic location, overbuilt with a monastery | |
Nideggen Castle | Nideggen | DN | NRW | Hilltop castle | 1177 | largely preserved, restaurant, castle museum | |
Baarsberg, castle wall | Bongard | DAU | RP | Celtic 60 m long and 7 m high protective wall, cistern | approx. 500 BC | today only scree, cistern filled up | Image desired |
Nideggen fortification | Nideggen | DN | NRW | City gates, city wall | received in large part | ||
Bourscheid Castle | Burscheid | Canton Diekirch | L. | Hilltop castle | around 1000 | Parts received | |
Burgau Castle | Niederau | DN | NRW | Moated castle | before 13th century | destroyed in World War II, rebuilt | |
Bertradaburg | Mürlenbach | DAU | RP | Höhenburg, spur location | early Middle Ages, first mentioned in the 13th century. | restored, largely preserved | |
Adenau Castle House | Adenau | AW | RP | Image desired | |||
Adenbach Castle | Ahrweiler | AW | RP | Niederungsburg, location | The castle goes back to a mansion from the late Middle Ages | Hotel from the end of the 1980s | |
Ahrweiler city fortifications | Ahrweiler | AW | RP | ||||
Adendorf Castle | Wachtberg | SU | NRW | Wasserburg, Niederungsburg | 1655-1670 | received, no viewing | |
Castle Altendorf mansion | Altendorf | SU | NRW | Knight's seat | |||
Old castle | Lommersdorf | EU | NRW | Spurburg | Late Middle Ages | small residues | Image desired |
Old castle | Kerpen | DAU | RP | Image desired | |||
Old castle | Insul | AW | RP | Image desired | |||
Old castle | Reifferscheid | AW | RP | Image desired | |||
Altburg (Altenburg; Burg Altendaun; Alte Burg; Aldenburg; Alteburg; Alt-Dune) | Schalkenmehren | DAU | RP | Image desired | |||
Andernach city castle | Then after | MYK | RP | ||||
Andernach city fortifications | Then after | MYK | RP | ||||
Burgus | Bodenbach | DAU | RP | Image desired | |||
Altenburg | Blankenheimerdorf | EU | NRW | Niederungsburg, moth | 13th century | partially preserved | Image desired |
Zehnbachhaus | Blankenheimerdorf | EU | NRW | moth | Image desired | ||
Austrian ski jumping hill line | Blankenheimerdorf | EU | NRW | Image desired | |||
Are Castle | Altenahr | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | probably 1100 | ruin | |
Aremberg Castle | Aremberg | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | First mentioned in 1166 | ruin | |
Amstenrath House | Eynatten | Canton of Eupen | B. | Moated castle | first mentioned in 1430 | receive | |
Arloff Castle | Arloff | EU | NRW | Moated castle | Early Gothic | received in large parts | |
Arras Castle | Alf | COC | RP | Hilltop castle | around 1100 | essential parts received | |
Bassenheim Castle | Bassenheim | MYK | RP | ||||
Bodendorf Castle | Bad Bodendorf | AW | RP | Moated castle | 13th century | partially preserved, rebuilt in the 17th century | |
Coraidelstein Castle | Clothes | COC | RP | Höhenburg, hillside location | 960 (disputed) | ruin | |
Burghaus Gymnich | Altenahr | AW | RP | Castle house | probably 14th century | Image desired | |
Münstereifel Castle | Bad Münstereifel | EU | NRW | Hillside castle | 13./14. Century | essential parts received | |
Münstereifel city fortifications | Bad Münstereifel | EU | NRW | City wall, towers | Traces since the Mesolithic, first traces of settlement in the Neolithic. | City wall completely preserved, restored | |
Berenstein Castle | Bergstein | DN | NRW | Hilltop castle | 1090 | Burgstall | |
Bekond Castle | Known | TR | RP | Moated castle | 1635, expanded 1710 | receive | Image desired |
Bell Castle | Bell | MYK | RP | castellum, fortified property | 1263 | Partly preserved | Image desired |
Bewershof | Nideggen | DN | NRW | Mansion | 17th - 18th century | receive | |
Mechernich Castle | mountain | EU | NRW | Moated castle | around 1200 | received or received substantial parts | |
Bitburg city wall | Bitburg | BIT | RP | City wall Roman to medieval | from 4th century | Leftovers | Image desired |
Blankenheim Castle | Blankenheim | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle | 1115 | essential parts received | |
Blankenheim valley fortification | Blankenheim | EU | NRW | ||||
Burgbrohl Castle | Burgbrohl | AW | RP | Destroyed in 1689, greatly expanded in the 18th century | receive | ||
Binningen Castle | Binningen | COC | RP | Castle (?) | ! 7. Century (?) | Leftovers | Image desired |
Bischofstein Castle | Münstermaifeld | MYK | RP | Spurburg | 1273 (older) | Rebuilt in 1930 | |
Blens Castle | Blens | DN | NRW | Hilltop castle | around 1100 | received or received substantial parts | |
Wasserburg Bruch | fracture | WIT | RP | Wasserburg, Niederungsburg | 14th Century | essential parts received | |
Bürresheim Castle | St. Johann | MYK | RP | Spornburg, altitude | 12th century | Preserved in the original structure | |
Fortification Bad Bodendorf | Bad Bodendorf | AW | RP | Picture desired | |||
Bollendorf Castle | Bollendorf | BIT | RP | Niederungsburg | about 700 | essential parts received | |
formerly moated castle Embken | Embken | DN | NRW | Moated castle | 16th to 18th century | rebuilt several times, preserved | |
Lantershofen Castle | Lantershofen | AW | RP | 1376/1708 | |||
Pissenheim Castle | Muldenau | DN | NRW | Niederungsburg | 1500 about | Preserved essential parts | |
Burgsahr Castle House | Kirchsahr | AW | RP | 17th century | receive | ||
Burberg, Roman height fortification | Burberg | DAU | RP | Image desired | |||
The castle | The castle | BIT | RP | Hilltop castle | 13th century | Wall remains | |
Clervaux Castle | Clervaux | Canton of Clervaux | L. | Castle | 12th century or earlier | Massively destroyed by German troops in 1944, reconstruction completed in 1994 | |
Reichsburg Cochem | Cochem | COC | RP | Hilltop castle | destroyed around 1100, 17th century, rebuilt 1868–1877 | neo-Gothic style | |
Bracht Castle | Brings | Canton of St. Vith | B. | lock | 1782-1785 | receive | |
City fortification of Cochem | Cochem | COC | RP | ||||
Daun Castle with Burgmann houses, Burghof and Waldenhof | Down | DAU | RP | Hilltop castle | around 1000 | destroyed several times and rebuilt, preserved: curtain wall, bastion tower. A Celtic fortress from 700 BC has also been built over | |
Densborn Castle | Densborn | DAU | RP | Castle | 13th century at the latest | Partial ruin | Image desired |
Dodenburg Castle | Dodenburg | WIT | RP | Moated castle, | 16th century, changed in 1891 in the form of the German Renaissance | receive | |
Dohm Castle | Dohm-Lammersdorf | DAU | RP | Castle, maybe a moated castle | Remnants of the curtain wall | Image desired | |
Dollendorf Castle | Blankenheim (Ahr) | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle | at 893 | Wall and tower remains | |
Dreiser Castle | Dreis-Brück | DAU | RP | Castle house | 1579 | Fully preserved and restored, private property, apartments | |
Dreimühlen Castle | Ahütte | DAU | RP | Hilltop castle | 13th century | ruin | |
Dreiborn Castle | Thriorn | EU | RP | Moated castle | middle Ages | receive | |
Dreis Castle | Three | WIT | RP | two-and-a-half-storey multi-wing system | 1774 | Image desired | |
Drove Castle | Drove | DN | NRW | Wasserburg, Niederungsburg | 1728-1741 | received or received substantial parts | |
Moth at Drove | Drove | DN | NRW | moth | first mentioned in the 13th century | Destroyed from 1643 to 1673, removed in the 19th century. Today only moth hill | |
Dudeldorf Castle | Dudeldorf | BIT | RP | Location | 1100-1200 | essential parts received | |
City fortifications Dudeldorf | Dudeldorf | BIT | RP | City wall city gate | 1345 | partially preserved | |
Eicks Castle | Eicks | EU | NRW | Moated castle | 1344 | Destroyed in 1365, rebuilt in 1680 using the old materials | |
Eltz Castle | Wierschem | MYK | RP | Hilltop castle | from 12th century | completely preserved | |
Entersburg | Hontheim | WIL | RP | Spurburg | from 11th century | Destroyed in 1138, Burgstall, small remains | Image desired |
Eyneburg | Hergenrath | Canton of Eupen | B. | Hilltop castle | first mentioned in 1260 | receive | |
Falkenstein Castle | Waldhof-Falkenstein | BIT | RP | Höhenburg, spur location | first half of the 12th century | essential parts received | |
Firmenich Castle | Firmenich | EU | NRW | Location | 1500 to 1600 | essential parts received | Image desired |
Freilingen Castle | Freilingen | DAU | RP | Niederungsburg, location | 14th century | worn down, Burgstall | Image desired |
Roman (Celtic?) refuge | Auw on the Kyll | BIT | RP | between Auw and Preist | Image desired | ||
Freudenkoppe | Neroth | DAU | RP | Hilltop castle | 1337-1340 | ruin | |
Freudenstein Castle | Brockscheid | DAU | RP | 1340 | the foundations can be found halfway towards Liesertal | Image desired | |
Föhren Castle | Pines | TR | RP | Castle | 1340, rebuilt in 1663 | receive | |
Gelsdorf Castle | Gelsdorf | AW | NRW | lock | 13th century, castle 1766 | Restored from 1980s to 1990s, private property | |
Genovevaburg | Mayen | MYK | RP | Castle | first time in 1281 | largely preserved, Eifel Museum with German Slate Museum | |
Gerolstein Castle | Gerolstein | DAU | RP | Hilltop castle | 110-1200 | Wall remains, tower remains | |
Gerolstein fortification | Gerolstein | DAU | RP | Image desired | |||
Ring wall | Borler | DAU | RP | Ring wall | probably early Celtic | Image desired | |
Ringwall Dietzenley | Gerolstein | DAU | RP | Iron Age ring wall | Leftovers | Image desired | |
Ringwall on the Hardtberg | Heilenbach | BIT | RP | Ring wall, Celtic? | Image desired | ||
Gödersheim Castle | Wollersheim | DN | NRW | Moated castle | first time 1343 | Remnants of the curtain wall and the heavily shaped gate | |
House Gronau | Huertgenwald | DN | NRW | Moated castle | approx. 17th or 18th century | receive | |
Gudenau Castle | Wachtberg | SU | NRW | Moated castle | 120-1250 | receive | |
Hamm Castle | Hamm | BIT | RP | Hilltop castle | 11th century | Destroyed by fire in 1945 behind the facade, new building from the 1960s | |
Hardtburg | Stotzheim | EU | NRW | Wasserburg, Niederungsburg | 11th or 12th century | well-preserved ruin | |
Hartelstein Castle | Schwirzheim | BIT | RP | Image desired | |||
Hausen Castle | Hausen | DN | NRW | Moated castle | before 1348 | essential parts received | |
Hengebach Castle | Heimbach | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle | before 1348 | essential parts received | |
House Heppingen (Metternich Castle) | Heppingen | AW | RP | former moated castle | Image desired | ||
Heimersheim, fortifications | Heimersheim | AW | RP | Image desired | |||
Heistard Castle | Holzheim | EU | NRW | Wasserburg, Niederungsburg | around 1333 | Round tower | |
Hillesheim Castle | Hillesheim | DAU | RP | Castle | before 1306 | there are no remains above ground | Image desired |
Hillesheim city fortifications | Hillesheim | DAU | RP | 2nd half of the 13th century at the latest | considerable remains have been preserved | ||
Holzheim Castle | Heister | DN | NRW | Niederungsburg | 1333 | received or received substantial parts | |
Hüngersdorf Castle | Hüngersdorf | DAU | RP | probably 13th century | Burgstall | Image desired | |
Icorigium , Roman fort | Jünkerath | DAU | RP | Fort | Beginning of the 4th century | no remains above ground have been preserved | |
Roman fort | Bitburg | BIT | RP | Image desired | |||
Hospitaller Commandery | Adenau | AW | RP | Manor house with farm yard | 12th century at the latest | partially preserved, used today for events | Image desired |
Hospitaller Commandery | Roth an der Our | BIT | RP | Commandery / Coming of the Knights Templar | built first half of the 12th century | 12th century destroyed several times, rebuilt and rebuilt in 1962 | |
Jünkerath Castle (Glaader Castle) | Jünkerath | DAU | RP | Rebuilt in 1726–1737 | Burned down after a lightning strike in 1737 | Wall remains | |
Manderschscheid Castle Kail | Oberkail | BIT | RP | Moated castle | 1340 | Partially demolished in 1809 | Image desired |
Kallmuth Castle | Kallmuth | EU | NRW | Niederungsburg | 13th century | receive | |
Celtic ring wall | Steineberg | DAU | RP | Ring wall | 500 or 300 to 100 BC | Image desired | |
celtic refuge Hicastel | Olmscheid | BIT | RP | Fliehburg and Roman fortifications | 6th century BC | Image desired | |
celtic refuge | Beautiful corners | BIT | RP | Fliehburg | 400 BC Chr. To 100 AD | Dolomite blocks | Image desired |
Kemplon Castle | Cochem | COC | RP | Image desired | |||
Kasselburg | Meuspath | AW | RP | Image desired | |||
Kasselburg | Pelm | DAU | RP | Hilltop castle | 1100 to 1200 | essential parts received | |
Katzenberg, Roman observatory | Mayen | MYK | RP | Image desired | |||
Kastellberg, castle wall | Hörschhausen | DAU | RP | Image desired | |||
City fortifications | Mayen | MYK | RP | ||||
Kempenich Castle | Kempenich | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | First mentioned around 1200 | partly destroyed, partly rebuilt | Image desired |
Kerpen Castle | Kerpen | DAU | RP | Höhenburg, spur location | around 1150 | essential parts received | |
Valley fortification | Kerpen | DAU | RP | Image desired | |||
Early medieval castle and tower castle from the Salier period | Kerpen | DAU | RP | Castle | 10th and 11th centuries | Image desired | |
Kinheim Castle | Kinheim | WIT | RP | Castle | 12th century | Leftovers, tower | Image wanted |
Kirspenich Castle | Kirspenich | EU | NRW | Moated castle | second half of the 12th century | essential parts received | |
Klüsserath moated castle | Kluesserath | TR | RP | Moated castle | 12th to 13th century, cellar from the 7th century | receive | |
Knoppenburg originally "Hof auf der Heyde" |
Neudorf | Canton of Eupen | B. | 16th century | receive | ||
Niederburg Kobern | Kobern-Gondorf | MYK | RP | Hilltop castle | ruin | ||
Oberburg Kobern | Kobern-Gondorf | MYK | RP | Hilltop castle | partially preserved | ||
Kommern Castle | Kommern | EU | NRW | Höhenburg location | around 1350 | received or received substantial parts | |
Stronghold cord | cord | TR | RP | Image desired | |||
Kreuzberg Castle | Kreuzberg | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | from the 14th century, rebuilt several times | essential parts received | |
Kewenig Castle | Body | BIT | RP | Moated castle | First mentioned in 1231 | Disintegrated in 1816 and was expanded from 1890 to 1891. A fire in 2013 caused enormous damage | Image desired |
Kronenburg | Kronenburg | EU | NRW | Castle and fortifications | 13th century | ruin | |
Kreuzau Castle | Kreuzau | DN | NRW | Hilltop castle | around 1330 | received or received substantial parts | |
Kyllburg | Kyllburg | BIT | RP | Höhenburg, location | 1239 | partially preserved | |
Laach Castle | Kruft | MYK | RP | Hilltop castle, spur position, moth | 11th century | Burgstall | Image desired |
Laufenburg | Long suffering | DN | NRW | Hilltop castle | before 1100 | received or received substantial parts | |
Landskron Castle | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler | AW | RP | ||||
Liebieg Castle | Kobern-Gondorf | MYK | RP | Niederburg | Erected as a castle from 1255–1272 | remodeled, restored, privately owned | |
Edinger city wall | Ediger-Eller | COC | RP | City fortifications | from 1362 | ||
Lehmen Castle | Clay | MYK | P | 18th century | 18th century | Image desired | |
Hofgut Lehmen residential tower | Ediger-Eller | COC | RP | Fortified Romanesque residential tower | 1233/34 | ruin | |
Lindweiler Castle | Lindweiler | EU | NRW | Moated castle | probably 13th century | laid down | Image desired |
Lissingen Castle | Gerolstein | DAU | RP | Moated castle | 13th century | completely preserved | |
Ließem Castle | Ließem | BIT | RP | former moated castle | 2nd half of the 14th century | some modifications, mostly preserved | Image desired |
Lieser Castle | Readers | WIT | RP | lock | 1884–1887 on the site of the courtyard house built in 1710 | receive | |
Lontzen Castle | Lontzen | Canton of Eupen | B. | before 1286 | |||
Löwenburg | Monreal | MYK | RP | Höhenburg, spur location | 13th century | ruin | |
Phillipsburg | Monreal | MYK | RP | Höhenburg, spur location | 13th century | ruin | |
Niederburg and Manderscheid valley fortifications | Manderscheid | WIT | RP | Hilltop castle | 1133 or 1173 | ruin | |
Manderscheid Upper Castle | Manderscheid | WIT | RP | Hilltop castle | 1141-1146 | ruin | |
Mauel Castle | Gemünd | EU | NRW | Niederungsburg? | first mentioned in 1353 | Location not secure, no remains, overbuilt | Image desired |
Monreal fortifications | Monreal | MYK | RP | Image desired | |||
Monaise Castle | Yours | TR | RP | lock | 1779-1783 | receive | |
Martberg, Celtic oppidum | Pomerania | COC | RP | Image desired | |||
Munchausen Castle | Wachtberg | SU | NRW | Wasserburg, Niederungsburg | 893 | received in large parts | |
Musweiler moated castle | Musweiler | WIT | RP | Moated castle | Image desired | ||
City fortifications Münstermaifeld | Münstermaifeld | MYK | RP | Image desired | |||
Lower Antweiler Castle | Antweiler | EU | NRW | Moated castle | 16th century | received or received substantial parts | |
Malberg Castle | Malberg | BIT | RP | lock | Predecessor demolished in 1203, successor building in 1224, rebuilt in 1588 | ||
Mirbach Castle | Mirbach | DAU | RP | An artificial ruin was built on the remains of the historical foundation walls. | Image desired | ||
Mont Royal fortress | Traben-Trarbach | WIT | RP | fortress | 1687 to 1698 | Ruin, few remains of the wall | |
Merkelshausen Castle | Oberpierscheid | BIT | RP | Hunting lodge | 1892 to 1893 | Image desired | |
Merode Castle | Merode | DN | NRW | Moated castle | first mentioned in 1170 | Significantly damaged by a major fire in 2000, but has been rebuilt | |
Namedy Castle | Namedy | MYK | RP | Wasserburg, baroque palace | 14th century | receive | |
Neuenahr Castle | Bad Neuenahr | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | around 1225 | ruin | Image desired |
Neublankenheim Castle | Leudesdorf | DAU | NRW | Hilltop castle | 13th or 14th century | ruin | |
Neuerburg | Neuerburg | BIT | RP | Höhenburg, hillside location | 892/1132 | received or received substantial parts | |
Neuerburg | Neuerburg, Wittlich | WIT | RP | Hilltop castle | 1140-1146 | Ruin, remains | Image desired |
Neuweiler Castle | Blankenheim | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle | 11th century | small residues | Image desired |
Niederbettingen Castle on the Kyll | Niederbettingen | DAU | RP | Hilltop castle | 13th century at the latest | ruin | Image desired |
Niederweis Castle | Niederweis | BIT | RP | 1551 | receive | ||
Bettingen Castle | Bettingen | BIT | RP | Castle | 13th century | ruin | Image desired |
Site fortification | Niederbettingen | DAU | RP | partly moated castle | Rest of the surrounding wall of the high medieval former moated castle | Image desired | |
Nürburg | Nürburg | AW | RP | Höhenburg, summit location | around 1166 | ruin | |
Oberhausen Castle | Oberhausen | Canton of St. Vith | B. | lock | 18th century | receive | Image desired |
Oberehe Castle | Superior marriage | DAU | RP | ||||
Odenhausen Castle | Wachtberg-Berbum | SU | NRW | Hohenburg (Wasserburg) in front of it moth | 1000-1100 | receive | |
Olbrück Castle | Niederduerenbach | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | around 1100 | ruin | |
Ouren Castle | Ouren | Canton of St. Vith | B. | Höhenburg, location | 12th century | ruin | |
Marienfels Castle | Remagen | AW | RP | Neo-Gothic | 1859 | receive | |
Pfalzel Castle | Pfalzel | TR | RP | Castle | 1131–1152 about Roman palatiolum | cremated several times, built up, small remains | Image desired |
City fortifications / fortress Pfalzel | Pfalzel | TR | RP | Image desired | |||
Prüm Castle | Prüm | BIT | RP | Residence and Benedictine monastery | Image desired | ||
Prümerburg | Prümzurlay | BIT | RP | Hilltop castle | around 1100 to 1200 | ruin | |
Pützfeld Castle | Ahrbrück | AW | RP | Niederungsburg | around 1222 | Wall remains | Image desired |
Pyrmont Castle | Roes | COC | RP | Hilltop castle | End of the 12th century | preserved in parts, securing work, reconstruction is in progress | |
Quinter Castle | Quint | TR | RP | lock | 18th century | receive | |
Ramstein Castle | cord | TR | RP | Hilltop castle | 10th, successor building 14th century | ruin | |
Reetz Castle | Reetz | EU | NRW | Castle house | 16th century | receive | Image desired |
Raaf Castle | Eynatten | Canton of Eupen | B. | Moated castle | 14th cent. | ruin | |
Raeren Castle | Raeren | Canton of Eupen | B. | Moated castle | around 1350 | received or received substantial parts | |
House Raeren | Raeren | Canton of Eupen | B. | Moated castle | 14th century | Preserved in its original form, private property | |
Reifferscheid Castle | Reifferscheid | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle | first mentioned in 1106 | ruin | |
Reifferscheid valley fortification | Reifferscheid | EU | NRW | Image desired | |||
Siege castle against Reifferscheid | Reifferscheid | EU | NRW | Image desired | |||
Reinhardstein Castle | Ovifat | Malmedy Canton | B. | Hilltop castle | 1354 | received or received substantial parts | |
Reuland Castle | Burg-Reuland | Canton of St. Vith | B. | Höhenburg, location | 11th to 12th century | ruin | |
Ring wall | Weinersheim | BIT | RP | Ring wall | Image desired | ||
Ripsdorf Castle | Ripsdorf | EU | NRW | probably 13th century | Burgstall | Image desired | |
Rittersdorf Castle | Rittersdorf | BIT | RP | Niederungsburg, location | 1263 | receive | |
Rohr Castle | pipe | EU | NRW | Location | probably 13th century | Burgstall, small remains | Image desired |
Rolandseck Castle | Rolandswerth | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | 1122, maybe 1040 | 1445 ruin destroyed | |
Saffenburg | Mayschoss | AW | RP | Hilltop castle | around 1047 | ruin | |
Satzvey Castle | Satzvey | EU | NRW | Moated castle | 12th century | receive | |
Schleiden Castle | Schleiden | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle | 12th century | receive | |
Schleiden valley fortifications | Schleiden | EU | NRW | Image desired | |||
Schmidtheim Castle | Schmidtheim | EU | NRW | Castle | 12th century | Foundation walls | Image desired |
Schmidtheim Castle | Schmidtheim | EU | NRW | Moated castle | between the 16th and 18th centuries | Residential tower preserved | |
House Schneidhausen | Kreuzau | DN | NRW | Manor house | 1743 | receive | |
Schönecken Castle | Beautiful corners | BIT | RP | Hilltop castle | around 1230 | ruin | |
Sweden Festival (Bauernburg) | Kirchweiler | DAU | RP | 1743 | Image desired | ||
Seinsfeld Castle | Field of being | BIT | RP | Moated castle | around 1325 | essential parts received | |
former Simonskall Castle | Simonskall | DN | NRW | Niederungsburg | 1643 | ||
Thor Castle | Astenet | Canton of Eupen | B. | 14th century | receive | ||
Tomburg Castle | Wormersdorf | SU | NRW | Hilltop castle | around 900 | Ruin, remains of the keep, well | |
City fortification Remagen | Remagen | AW | RP | City wall etc. | from 1357 | Parts still visible | |
Stockem Castle | Eupen | Canton of Eupen | B. | Niederungsburg | 18th to 19th century | received or received substantial parts | |
Proud castle | between Sötenich and Urft | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle | ruin | ||
Stolberg Castle | Stolberg | AC | NRW | Hilltop castle | 12th century | destroyed and rebuilt several times, preserved today in the overall picture | |
Stromberg | Near Ripsdorf | EU | NRW | Hill castle, moth | Remnants, could go back to the Celtic times | Image desired | |
Tandel Castle | Tandel | Canton of Vianden | L. | Hilltop castle | 7th-9th Wooden structure, 10th century castle built | rebuilt several times, expanded, ruin | |
Trutzeltz Castle | Wierschem | MYK | RP | ||||
Ulmen castles | Elms | COC | RP | Hilltop castle | 12th to 13th century | ruin | |
Ulmen valley fortifications | Elms | COC | RP | Image desired | |||
Untermaubach Castle | Kreuzau | DN | NRW | Hilltop castle | 1350 | received or received substantial parts | |
Obermaubach Castle | Kreuzau | DN | NRW | Tower Hill Castle | 1152 | hardly any leftovers | Image desired |
Viereckschanze | Eisenach | BIT | RP | late La Tène period | Image desired | ||
Vianden Castle | Vianden | Canton of Vianden | L. | Hilltop castle | around 1000 to 1100 | received or received in substantial parts | |
Vehn Castle | Sinzig | AW | RP | Wasserburg, castle | first mentioned in 1019 | rebuilt several times, preserved | |
Vettelhoven Castle | Vettelhoven | AW | RP | lock | 1890 | ||
Vettelhoven Castle | Vettelhoven | AW | RP | Castle house with corner tower, | 15th century | Image desired | |
Schwedenschanze | Hillesheim | DAU | RP | Early modern age | no visible remains are preserved | Image desired | |
Veynau Castle | Wisskirchen | EU | NRW | Wasserburg, Niederungsburg | around 1340 | received or received substantial parts | |
Wachendorf Castle | Mechernich | EU | NRW | lock | The present castle was built around 1780. | received, wedding location of the registry office Mechernich and Zen temple | |
Virneburg | Virneburg | MYK | RP | Hilltop castle | second half of the 12th century | ruin | |
Vischel Castle | Vischel | AW | RP | Moated castle | 9th century | The present castle was built in 1829. | |
Vlatten Castle | Vlatten | DN | NRW | Niederungsburg | before 1331 | received or received substantial parts | |
Vlattenhaus | Eynatten | Canton of Eupen | B. | Moated castle | 14th century | destroyed, remains, reconstruction | |
Waldenburghaus originally "Merols Castle" |
Kettenis | Canton of Eupen | B. | first mentioned in 1266 | receive | ||
Wallerode Castle | St. Vith | Canton of St. Vith | B. | Hilltop castle | 17th century | receive | Image desired |
Wassenach Castle House | Wassenach | AW | RP | 1772 | receive | ||
Weilerbach Castle | Bollendorf | TR | RP | Moated castle | 1777-1780 | receive | |
Weims Castle | Kettenis | Canton of Eupen | B. | first mentioned in 1334 | receive | ||
White Tower | Ahrweiler | AW | RP | Residential tower | 13th century | receive | |
White Tower | Weißenthurm | MYK | RP | Customs and residential tower | early 15th century | receive | |
Welschbillig Castle | Welschbillig | TR | RP | Moated castle | 12th century | ruin | |
Weir system with moats on the Ritschberg | Oberweiler | BIT | RP | pre-Christian time | Image desired | ||
Winneburg | Cochem | COC | RP | ||||
Wensburg | Lind | AW | RP | Spurburg | 13th to 14th century | ruin | |
Wernerseck Castle | Attention | MYK | RP | Hilltop castle | 1202 | ruin | |
Wildenburg Castle | Hellenthal | EU | NRW | Hilltop castle. Spur position | 1202-1235 | receive | |
Wildenburg | Bürvenich | EU | NRW | 11-12 Century | receive | ||
City fortifications Winningen | Winningen | MYK | NRW | City fortifications | from the 1398 begun, 1568–1583 replaced by a curtain wall | Leftovers, city gate | |
Zievel Castle | Lessenich | EU | NRW | Niederungsburg | 1107 | well preserved | |
Electoral Cologne state castle Zülpich | Zülpich | EU | NRW | Niederungsburg | 14th century | received or received substantial parts | |
Zur Leyen Castle | Kobern-Gondorf | MYK | RP | Castle | 14th century | preserved, but the street was led through the building | |
Burg Zur Leyen also Burg Ockerfels | Urzig | WIT | RP | Hilltop castle | 1200-1250 | Leftovers with new parts | |
Zewener Tower | Zewen | TR | RP | Weir system and customs station | Early 13th century | receive |
See also
- List of castles, palaces and fortresses in North Rhine-Westphalia
- List of castles, fortresses and palaces in Rhineland-Palatinate
literature
- Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 .
- Dirk Holtermann, Holger A. Dux: The Düren castle tour. Cycling between the Rur and the Eifel. Bouvier, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-416-02979-8 .
- Dirk Holtermann, Harald Herzog: The Euskirchen Castle Tour. Cycling between Erft and Eifel. Walter Rau, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7919-0750-6 .
- Matthias Kordel: The most beautiful palaces and fortresses in the Eifel. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1999, ISBN 3-86134-482-3 .
- Karl Emerich Krämer : From castle to castle through the Eifel. 4th edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 3-87463-066-8 .
- Michael Losse : Castles and palaces, noble residences and fortifications in the Vulkaneifel. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-399-1 .
- Michael Losse: Castles and palaces in the Eifel. Regionalia, Rheinbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-939722-44-1 .
- Michael Losse: "Cheeky and firm, with vertical wall towers ... like a crown". Castles, palaces and fortresses on the Ahr and in the Adenauer Land. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-1774-1 .
- Michael Losse: Theiss Castle Guide. High Eifel and Ahr Valley. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1775-0 .
Web links
Commons : Castle in the Eifel - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Castles of the Eifel
- Castles, palaces and ruins in the Vulkaneifel
- List of castles and palaces on eifel.de
- Castles and palaces on eifelfuehrer.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Barsberg (2) (Forsthaus Barsberg, Bongard municipality, Ringwall) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 5, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.konejung-stiftung.de/mm-historyguide/Drover-Berg-Tunnel-Flyer-otal.pdf Motte at Drove