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Stolberg Castle

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Copper Route – Eifelsteig partner trails

19.0km

05:12

330m

180m

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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2. Stolberg Old Town – Stolberg Old Town loop from Stolberg Altstadt

13.1km

03:37

220m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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3. Hammerberg Panorama Trail – Stolberg Old Town loop from Liester

9.46km

02:42

220m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Peter-Pit

October 23, 2022

Stolberg Castle - history in the heart of the city

Stolberg Castle rises on a steep limestone cliff in the middle of Stolberg's old town in Stolberg (Rhineland) in the North Rhine-Westphalian city region of Aachen. It is the landmark, cradle and namesake of the city.

Stolberg Castle was built by the Lords of Stalburg in the 12th century. In the middle of the 15th century, the Dukes of Jülich pledged the razed complex to the Lords of Nesselrode. In the middle of the 16th century, Hieronymus von Efferen had the castle expanded after it had been destroyed. As a result of marriage, the castle and dominion came to the Reichsfreiherren Raitz von Frentz. In the 18th and 19th centuries the castle fell into ruin. From the last aristocratic owners, the Imperial Counts of Kesselstatt, the complex came into bourgeois ownership in 1863. The Stolberg manufacturer Moritz Kraus had the castle rebuilt in the historicist style in 1888 and gave it to the city in 1909.

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Rheinschiffer ⚓

February 17, 2019

A very beautiful old town with great, cute little houses and a thousand niches, sometimes a bridge here and sometimes a dirty corner there, but the beautiful things outweigh the bad. Lots of equipment from the old days of copper foundry stands there as a memorial. Highly recommended.

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Elfi

March 12, 2023

A great old castle with a very nice old town. We recommend.

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Stolberg Castle

1. Copper Route – Eifelsteig partner trails

2. Stolberg Old Town – Stolberg Old Town loop from Stolberg Altstadt

3. Hammerberg Panorama Trail – Stolberg Old Town loop from Liester

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