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Key facts
- Type
- Hill castle
- Architectural style
- Romanesque , Baroque
- Location
- Wierschem , D-56294 Münstermaifeld, Germany
- Elevation
- 320 m (1,050 ft)
- Construction started
- prior to 1157
- Owner
- Dr. Karl Graf von und zu Eltz-Kempenich
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Startseite - Burg Eltz – Eine der schönsten Burgen in Deutschland
Burg Eltz hat täglich von 09:30 bis 17:30 h bis einschließlich 2. Nov. 2020 geöffnet.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- museum
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Wierschem
- Official website
- burg-eltz.de
- Image
- 00 4244 Burg Eltz in Rheinland-Pfalz (Wierschen).jpg
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- Commons gallery
- Burg Eltz
- architectural style
- Romanesque architecture
- Commons category
- Burg Eltz
- street address
- Burg Eltz 1, 56294 Wierschem
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- review score
- 4,5/5
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Encyclopedic overview
Eltz Castle (German: Burg Eltz) is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle between Koblenz and Trier, Germany. It is still owned by a branch of the House of Eltz who have lived there since the 12th century. Eltz Castle along with Bürresheim Castle and Lissingen Castle are the only castles in the Eifel region which have never been destroyed.
The castle stands on a 70-metre-high (230 ft) rock spur that is bounded on three sides by the river Elzbach, a tributary on the north side of the Moselle. The surrounding Eltz Forest has been declared a nature reserve by Flora-Fauna-Habitat and Natura 2001.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eltz Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.