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View of the Rur Valley from Nideggen Castle

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Nideggen

View of the Rur Valley from Nideggen Castle

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Location: Nideggen, Kreis Düren, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. View of the Nideggen Cliffs – View of Nideggen Castle loop from Nideggen

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2. Hindenburg Gate – Nideggen Castle loop from Zerkall

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3. Nideggen Castle – Effelsfelsen loop from Nideggen

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Gerda

October 11, 2021

The views from Nideggen Castle are fantastic

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Silke mit Yuna & Yomi

March 26, 2020

The "Eifel-Blicke" are an initiative of the German-Belgian Nature Park

and from Rureifel-Tourism e. V.. There are particularly beautiful vantage points in the Eifel.

(There are over 60 of them and if the Komoot team doesn't delete them again, I'll try to collect them all!)

This Eifel view (approx. 300 meters above sea level) on the west tower, the so-called "lady's bay window", of the castle offers a south to north-westerly distant view over the central Rur valley and the northern parts of the Eifel National Park to the plateau of the Rur Eifel.

The west tower consists mainly of building fabric from the 14th century and served representative purposes with its large windows. Inside are the remains of a chimney, based on which it is assumed that the bowers for the female members of the count's family were also located here.

Nideggen Castle is enthroned above the central Rur Valley on the so-called "Burgwand", which is up to 50 m high and forms the high point of the local federal sandstone formations. The oldest part of this mighty and imposing landmark (the keep) was built between 1177 and 1190 at the behest of Count Wilhelm II von Jülich.

The castle museum, opened in the keep in 1979, provides an interesting insight into life in a castle in the Middle Ages through its exhibitions.

SOURCE: eifel-blicke.de/go/eifelblicke-detail/39_nideggen_burg_nideggen.html

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Adrian

April 25, 2020

Wonderful view of the valley!

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Location: Nideggen, Kreis Düren, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

View of the Rur Valley from Nideggen Castle

1. View of the Nideggen Cliffs – View of Nideggen Castle loop from Nideggen

2. Hindenburg Gate – Nideggen Castle loop from Zerkall

3. Nideggen Castle – Effelsfelsen loop from Nideggen

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