Cologne District

Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

Odenthal

Site of Burg Berge (Former Castle)

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Bergisches Land

Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

Odenthal

Site of Burg Berge (Former Castle)

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Site of Burg Berge (Former Castle)

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Location: Odenthal, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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July 14, 2021

Hiking

It's a beautiful area. A sparse forest, small hills and a steep wall down to the Dhünn river. You don't see any more today. And yet we are here in one of the historically most important places in the Bergisches Land. The first fortified ancestral seat of the Counts of Berg was built here in 1060, Burg Berge. Today it is only a ground monument, with a little imagination you can still see the remains of the ruins. There is a description of the castle and an attempt at reconstruction on an information board.

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Franz

February 9, 2019

Hiking

The Burg Berge in Odenthal-Altenberg was the first ancestral seat of the Dukes of Berg. On a mountain hill on the banks of the Dhünn, are the remains of the castle.

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Luther Olafson

September 20, 2020

Hiking

History of the Bergisches Land.
Along the Bergisch foray "Grafen- und Mönchsweg" lies the place where the former ancestral seat of the Counts of Berg was in the Middle Ages, before they moved into their new ancestral seat Schloss Burg in today's Solingen.
Unfortunately, the castle is no longer visible today. At this point, a stele reminds of the only fortification that probably contributed to the name Altenberg (the old fortress of the von Berg...). The site is now an archaeological monument and shelter for lizards.

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