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Darmstadt District

Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

Burg Rheinberg Ruins

Castles

Darmstadt District

Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

Lorch

Burg Rheinberg Ruins

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Burg Rheinberg Ruins

Recommended by 16 hikers out of 19

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

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Location: Lorch, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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1. Blidenburg Ruins – View of Ransel loop from Wollmerschied

13.9km

04:06

390m

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2. Blidenburg Ruins – Ransel Country Museum loop from Ransel

6.34km

01:55

190m

Hard hike. Great for any fitness level. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

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3. Werkerbrunnen – View of the Taunus Hills loop from Presberg

15.2km

04:38

450m

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Kaillennium

April 16, 2023

ATTENTION: The ruins may no longer be entered. I was there on 04/14/2023. There are prohibition signs and references to video surveillance. But I couldn't find any cameras.

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Thomas Reifferscheid

July 12, 2016

About the exact date of construction, there are contradictory sources. Probably a first plant was built around the year 1165 by the then Archbishop of Mainz and applied in 1170 to the Rhinegraves as kurmainzisches fief. After a feud by Archbishop Werner von Eppstein with the Rhinegrave Siegfrid von Rheinberg in 1279, the castle was besieged by the Mainz. [1] For this purpose, the approximately 500 meters north and a little higher on the same mountain spur castle Blideneck was built as Trutzburg and the only 500 meters further west on a ridge opposite Aachener hill. In 1280, the castle Rheinberg was conquered and destroyed by the Mainz. After that, a reconstruction took place until 1315, during which the current keep was built. The castle was in 1399 Palatinate fief. From about the year 1400, the complex was expanded to a Ganerbenburg and inhabited by several families. In the centuries that followed, Rheinberg Castle, which had become strategically insignificant, was never destroyed again during warlike attacks; However, it was neglected structurally and finally abandoned. Since the end of the 18th century, the castle was uninhabitable and deteriorated rapidly as a ruin.

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Toomok

May 28, 2016

Castle ruin is difficult to access. You first have to climb up a small slope.

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Michael

March 27, 2016

A castle ruin of a special kind.

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Location: Lorch, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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