View of Rudelsburg and Saaleck Castles

The core castle was once surrounded by an inner and outer defensive wall. The remains of several residential buildings have been preserved on the inner wall. A ditch with a wall was created on both narrow sides of the surrounding terrace.

Maybe the view from down here motivates the traveler to look up from above. About the railway line and further behind the castle hill it goes on good road up steeply to a viewing platform in the area of ​​Rudelsburg.

The castle lies on a roof-shaped, west-projecting Muschelkalkrücken immediately south of the village Saaleck to about 172 m above sea level. NN. The characteristic image of the castle is formed by the two widely visible circular keeps, whose wall thickness is about two meters and each of almost 23 meters high (Wikipedia).